{"id":91798,"date":"2019-10-12T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=91798"},"modified":"2019-10-14T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:24:04","slug":"saturday-feel-good-stories-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91798","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Feel Good Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/08-churchill-met-tommy-gun-1.jpg\" alt=\"Winnie w_tommy gun\" \/><br \/>\nWinston Meets Tommy-gun<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birmingham Police investigating fatal shooting on 7th Ave.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by James FranklinWednesday, November 29th 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014 Update:<br \/>\nThe Birmingham Police Department attempted to stop a vehicle that was seen driving down 7th Avenue South around 1:00 A.M. with the headlights off. The driver of the vehicle refused to stop for the police, and crashed in the 3200 block of Highland Drive. After the crash, the driver ran from the car but was apprehended after a brief foot chase.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was taken to police headquarters where he admitted to shooting the victim on 7th Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect says that the victim made sexual advances toward him. He then shot the victim and left the scene in the victim&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<p>The victim is only being identified as a 54-year-old white male, pending notification of family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>A man was found dead from a gunshot wound to the neck early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham Police say the man was found on 7th Avenue South.<\/p>\n<p>ABC 33\/40 will update this story as more information is made available.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1 \/ 0 \/ 0<br \/>\nRead the article here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91798\">Saturday Feel Good Stories<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/local\/birmingham-police-investigating-fatal-shooting-on-7th-ave\">abc3340_1.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Murder charges dropped for Birmingham man who killed sex offender in self-defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by James Franklin Wednesday, November 29th 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBMA) \u2014 A Birmingham man has been cleared of three charges of Capital Murder after shooting-and-killing a convicted sex offender in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Gordon&#8217;s lawyer confirmed the verdict this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon shot and killed Michael Shane Stepp, a convicted sex offender, in self-defense in late November 2017 under the state\u2019s stand your ground law after Stepp tried to lure Gordon into his car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1 \/ 0 \/ 0<br \/>\nRead the article here at <a href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/local\/birmingham-police-investigating-fatal-shooting-on-7th-ave\">abc3340_2.com<\/a><br \/>\nStill 1 \/ 0 \/ 0, I had no idea Birmingham had such a huge crime rate.<\/p>\n<p>I got an inkling here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/news\/east-alabama\/\">WBRC East Alabama News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birmingham,_Alabama#Census_data\">Wikipedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like our next awardee is from Blaster, right below.<br \/>\n<strong>The First 48<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Long-Running, Top-Rated Crime Series<\/em><\/p>\n<p>View the site at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetv.com\/shows\/the-first-48\">A&amp;E Shows, &#8220;The <\/a>first 48.&#8221; Thanks Blaster- I can retire from the daily FGS now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winston Meets Tommy-gun Birmingham Police investigating fatal shooting on 7th Ave. by James FranklinWednesday, November 29th &hellip; <a title=\"Saturday Feel Good Stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91798\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday Feel Good Stories<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91798","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}