{"id":79807,"date":"2018-06-05T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79807"},"modified":"2018-06-04T13:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:37:13","slug":"tuesday-morning-feel-good-stories-166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79807","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we wrote about the homeowner who shot to death two criminals in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article212474004.html\">Memphis, Tennessee<\/a>. Today we learn that he used a scary black rifle to balance the scales in his favor;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the shooting went on, the homeowner pulled out a weapon of his own from a closet &#8211; a &#8220;personal&#8221; AK-47 rifle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on but I know I&#8217;m going to defend my life to the best of my ability,&#8221; he told WMC. \u201cI just let loose, not knowing it hit both of them,\u201d the man told Fox 13.<\/p>\n<p>When officials arrived, both 28-year-old Azell Witherspoon and 17-year-old Demond Robinson were pronounced dead, according to the Commercial Appeal. Police detained the homeowner but concluded that the shooting was in self-defense and did not press charges, according to the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner told WMC this wasn&#8217;t his first brush with violence, and that his home had been shot up less than a year ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/06\/04\/park-county-carjacker-shooting\/\">Park County, Colorado<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the sheriff\u2019s office, after the attempted carjacking, the victim was able to escape and flagged down a ranch employee for help. The employee tracked down the suspect during a confrontation, the suspect was shot at least one time while the ranch employee was stabbed several times.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his wound, the suspect ran when deputies arrived. They chased him and arrested him around 5 p.m. Sunday. Deputies attempted to control the bleeding from his gunshot wound, but the suspect died before Platte Canyon Fire and Flight for Life arrived.<\/p>\n<p>No deputies fired their weapons, Jones said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we wrote about the homeowner who shot to death two criminals in Memphis, &hellip; <a title=\"Tuesday morning feel good stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79807\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday morning feel good stories<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}