{"id":81913,"date":"2018-09-21T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81913"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:37","slug":"friday-morning-feel-good-stories-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81913","title":{"rendered":"Friday morning feel good stories."},"content":{"rendered":"

From\u00a0WILLIAMSTON, N.C.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

A homeowner in Williamston shot a suspect who he saw in his driveway breaking into vehicles, deputies said.\u00a0\u00a0The Martin County Sheriff’s Office responded to 3256 Bailey Road in Williamston\u00a0in reference to someone that had been shot.\u00a0\u00a0Deputies arrived on the scene, secured the area and contacted investigators.<\/p>\n

An investigation revealed that one of the homeowners was inside the residence and observed an individual breaking into the vehicles that were parked in the homeowner’s driveway.<\/p>\n

The homeowner armed themselves with a handgun and went outside to confront the suspect.\u00a0 Deputies said that during the confrontation, a single shot was fired by the homeowner, which struck the suspect.\u00a0 The suspect was transported to Martin General Hospital by the Williamston Fire\/Rescue Department and then airlifted to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville for further medical treatment.<\/p>\n

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation\u00a0is assisting deputies with the investigation.<\/p>\n

The case is still under investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From\u00a0Prince George’s County, MD<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Just a public service announcement,\u00a0 If you come to bust down my door I don’t care what you are screaming in the process.\u00a0 Two very lucky LEO’s in this case and the Judges who rubber stamp these warrants are never held accountable…ever.\u00a0 That needs to change.<\/p>\n

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A police search warrant team going after a drug dealer targeted the wrong address and burst into the apartment of an innocent resident who shot and wounded two officers believing they were home invaders, Prince George\u2019s law enforcement officials said.<\/p>\n

Police Chief Hank Stawinski apologized for the error Thursday and said he has halted executing search warrants until the department reviews how it corroborates information to confirm addresses and the location of investigative targets.<\/p>\n

As soon as officers entered the apartment, the man inside immediately surrendered when he realized police were on the other side of the door, Stawinski said.<\/p>\n

The man yelled, \u201c\u2018You\u2019ve got the wrong address! Don\u2019t shoot my daughter!\u2019?\u201d according to Stawinski.<\/p>\n

No criminal charges will be filed against the resident, who fired at police with a shotgun, said Stawinski, adding that police \u201cdid not draw the right conclusion\u201d about their target.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe served the search warrant at the address that we identified through the investigation, however the investigation led us to the wrong address,\u201d Stawinski said. \u201cThe individual that we are targeting does not live at that address .?.?. a law-abiding, hard-working citizen of Prince George\u2019s County and his daughter were home at the point where we were executing that search warrant.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident began about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday as police were on the third floor of a garden-style apartment in the 2700 block of Lorring Drive in Forestville. Nine officers from the Emergency Services Team, essentially a SWAT team, knocked on the door and announced that they were police, department spokeswoman Jennifer Donelan said.<\/p>\n

Hearing no response from inside, police began using a device to pry open the door to the unit, Donelan said. The man inside fired a shotgun at the team \u201cas soon as they were able to open that door,\u201d Donelan said.<\/p>\n

An officer fired back but didn\u2019t strike anyone inside the apartment, Donelan said. Two officers were wounded, one in the shoulder and one in the hand.<\/p>\n

The resident and his daughter had fallen asleep in front of the television and did not hear police announce themselves, Stawinski said. When the father awoke to a commotion, he believed home invaders were trying to break in, and instructed his daughter to run and hide, Stawinski said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat individual acted to protect himself and to protect his daughter from what he believed to be the threat of home invasion,\u201d Stawinski said. \u201cI am confident that he did not intentionally fire that weapon at police officers because they were police officers .?.?. this man was devastated when he realized he had fired upon police officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From\u00a0WILLIAMSTON, N.C.\u00a0 A homeowner in Williamston shot a suspect who he saw in his driveway breaking … Friday morning feel good stories.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":81667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81913","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\/81913","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}