{"id":86039,"date":"2019-04-05T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86039"},"modified":"2019-04-04T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T20:38:36","slug":"friday-feel-good-stories-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86039","title":{"rendered":"Friday Feel Good Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/crossbow-e1554408063981.jpg\" alt=\"crossbow\" \/><br \/>\nAny port in a storm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Murder Charges Dropped in Longbranch Shootings<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lisa Bryan, KP News<br \/>\nCory Nathan Mason, 28, was released from Pierce County jail April 1 after nearly 14 months in custody awaiting trial for two counts of second-degree murder. Mason shot and killed Beth Hamlin-Slawson, 25, and her husband Lukas Slawson, 35, in the early morning hours of Feb. 3, 2018, at the home of Beth\u2019s parents in the 5500 block of Whiteman Road SW in Longbranch.<\/p>\n<p>Mason said he acted in self-defense. <\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred at 2:30 a.m. outside the home where Mason lived with his 18-year-old girlfriend and her parents, who are also the parents of Beth Hamlin-Slawson, according to prosecuting attorney Kawyne A. Lund\u2019s motion and order for dismissal filed with the Superior Court for Pierce County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWashington law on self-defense provides a killing is justified if a defendant reasonably feared imminent death or great personal injury at the time of the killing,\u201d Lund wrote in the court document. \u201cA defendant is entitled to act on what he perceives and at the time believes in good faith and on reasonable grounds, that he or another is in actual danger, even if afterward it was learned he was mistaken as to the extent of danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecutor\u2019s office, the confrontation began after a heated exchange of social media messages between Mason and Beth over the purchase of a gun and alleged abuse by Mason of his girlfriend, Beth\u2019s younger sister. The KP News is not naming the sister since she may be the victim of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>Beth and her husband, Lukas, drove to the residence and unexpectedly encountered Mason in a car driven by Beth\u2019s mother, Lisa Hamlin.<\/p>\n<p>They aggressively tailgated the car to Lisa\u2019s home, according to prosecutors. A time-stamped surveillance video showed both vehicles rapidly pulling into the driveway and Beth running from her car to the car Mason was in, and confronting him with a sledgehammer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2 \/ 0 \/ 0<br \/>\nRead the rest of the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/keypennews.com\/murder-charges-dropped-in-longbranch-shootings\/\">Key Penn News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>APD: Stabbing was possibly in self defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nicole Maxwell, Alamogordo Daily News<br \/>\nAlamogordo Police said 55-year-old Peter Rocha was fatally stabbed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers and a team with American Medical Response (AMR) responded around 1:40 p.m. to a call at the 2400 block of Stanford Street regarding a man with a stab wound.<\/p>\n<p>Rocha was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a personal domestic-related incident between family,&#8221; APD Chief Brian Peete said. &#8220;We did have one subject in custody but upon preliminary investigation, we decided to release that individual while we conduct more due diligence into what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was not a domestic violence incident, but an inter-family incident, Peete said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not a domestic violence incident. It was just inter-family dynamics that are going on,&#8221; Peete said. &#8220;It was not a domestic violence incident in the traditional sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police have said evidence suggests the stabbing was in self-defense. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1 \/ 0 \/ 0<br \/>\nThe rest of the article may be viewed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamogordonews.com\/story\/news\/local\/community\/2019\/04\/03\/apd-stabbing-possibly-self-defense\/3354505002\/\">Alamogordo News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vienna resident kills wild boar<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VIENNA \u2014 Sam Guranino shot a 200-pound wild boar that was roaming around a neighbor\u2019s property Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Guranino and other residents are expressing concern about the number of invasive animals that may be on the former Candywood Whitetail Ranch and around the township. Guranino said he has seen wild boars on and around his property for about two years.<\/p>\n<p>Because something has been damaging area properties, Guranino set up cameras. They caught images of the wild boars as they moved through the area.<\/p>\n<p>Guranino and a neighbor, Roy Pratt, set up a station to watch for the animals this week and shot one of two they saw coming out from the edge of the woods about 8:30 p.m. on the first night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the smaller of two boars,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt is concerned because boars eat plants in gardens by using their tusks to dig up the soft roots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s beside the fact they\u2019re big scary animals,\u201d Pratt said. \u201cEspecially where there are a lot of kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pratt estimates the larger boar may have been as heavy as 350 pounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1 \/ 0 \/ 0<br \/>\nThe rest of the article may be read here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribtoday.com\/news\/local-news\/2019\/04\/vienna-resident-kills-wild-boar\/\">Tribune Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sow-e1554409968292.jpg\" alt=\"sow\" \/><br \/>\nIf this is a boar, I have a pair of breeding mules for sale.*grin* <\/p>\n<p>As for the crossbow pictured above, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, use what you have. I total 3 \/ 0 \/ ?, with another Trifecta, none inconvenienced, and a dead critter who would look good on a spit. And the weekend is just starting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any port in a storm. 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