Feel good stories for Tuesday

There’s more oxygen for the rest of us today after a retired DC police officer in Maryland laid one burglar low in a shootout in his apartment while the other escaped;

The incident began shortly before 10:30 p.m., when the former officer heard several loud bangs on his front door in the 3600 block of Harlequin Court in Huntingtown, according to the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office. He grabbed a handgun and answered the door, finding two people there.

One brandished a weapon and both made aggressive movements toward the homeowner, who fired shots at the two men in fear of his life.

I guess they didn’t bother to case the joint and gain a little situational awareness before they hatched their nefarious plot. Out of all of the unarmed people in Maryland, they picked a retired cop.

In Texas, Cory Randle was threatened with a gun, led to his house where he retrieved his own gun and sent the gunman to his reward;

Police said the victim, whose name hasn’t been released, had a gun pressed against his head by the armed robber in the parking lot of the Bel Air Place apartments on Dewberry Blvd. in Lancaster.

The robber forced the victim at gunpoint to take him to his upstairs apartment. The victim said the robber said he’d kill him if he didn’t give him “everything he had.”

While being held in his apartment, the victim grabbed his own gun and started shooting at the robber. The two exchanged gunfire inside the apartment and the shootout continued to the breezeway and down into the parking lot.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.

Category: Guns