Wednesday feel good story
Chief Tango sends us today’s tale of folks who get their lives turned around. This one is from Indianapolis, happened today at about 2:30 am. ALthough the details are sketchy at this point, but it looks like 31-year-old Joshua Renick was killed during his attempt at a home invasion;
Police responded to a report of gunshots, Wilburn said, and initially discovered a black Chrysler 300 parked in the middle of Naomi Street with no one inside. A homeowner — identified in a police report as Chad Heugel, 28 — then approached police and directed them to his residence, where police found an unresponsive man lying in a hallway.
The IndyStar reports that young Renick had a pretty extensive record of attempting to turn his life around;
About a year ago, on Sept. 9, 2012, Renick allegedly broke into a home in the 5000 block of Rocky Mountain Drive on the Southwestside and stole the homeowner’s son’s cell phone. Renick, at that time, was wanted for criminal confinement and robbery.
Renick also had been convicted of criminal confinement, resisting law enforcement and armed robbery in December 2007, according to the Indiana Department of Corrections database.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Stories like this are heart warming!
One less to keep alive on taxpayer dollars. Glad the homeowner is alive and defended his castle.
One more well-secured home. One more very dead thug.
Really, really excellent.
Fine work, if you ask me.
Sounds like the yut (at 31 y.o.? seriously?) had more then enough opportunities to honestly “turn his life around”. The odds finally caught up with him and the house ALWAYS wins!
I, too, am glad Mr Heugel is safe and sound, as well as all who reside within his domicile.
Now, about any pertinent Indiana and Indianapolis laws. . . .
So, can we add Indiana to the list of states that Stevie Wonder will not be performing in?
Stevie who? Seriously, what has he done in the last 30-35 years?
I love it when people try to turn their lives around in my city!
The State could have saved this mans life! They could have put him in prison for his various felony convictions and he would be safe in his bed tonight. What ever happened to twenty year terms served consecutively? But no. Out on the streets plying his trade five years after convictions for at least two serious felonies. If the state has done its duty he would not be at room temperature tonight.
SARC/OFF
Time to buy another commemorate t-shirt. My wardrobe has been exploding over the last few months. Fo’ Shizzle!
I watched this on local news. Renick was released from prison in December 2011 after serving 4 years of a 12 year sentence.