Monday feel good stories

Ohio and Chief Tango send us some feel good stories to start out your week. The first is from Columbus, Ohio where four people tried to rob two others who were in their apartment when the four busted in;

Columbus Police say 23-year-old Jonathan Milton, two other men and a teenage girl tried to rob two people at a west side apartment on Cascade Court Wednesday.

10TV spoke with the robbery victims. 55-year-old Elec Reed says he ran outside for help when the suspects came in.

67-year-old Edward Finnell says that is when one of the robbers pulled a gun on him, and he reacted.

“I didn’t want to shoot nobody, but i didn’t want to get shot. Just like something sprang and I was right back in Vietnam again- kill or be killed,” Finnell said.

Finnel shot Milton and 25-year-old Carmeore Johnson.

The other story comes from Kentucky, where a convenience store owner turned someone’s life around;

The shooting occurred early Friday afternoon. Police received a call from the Marathon Food Mart about the shooting at 12:46 p.m. Officers arrived at the Marathon, 1209 Winchester Road, near Eastland Shopping Center, shortly after. The man was shot once, and had some “pretty serious injuries,” said Lexington police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts. Police said the man was shot with a handgun that was later found inside the store.

The owner of Marathon is protected under the castle doctrine, which says a person is not obligated to retreat from somebody breaking into their home or vehicle. The 2006 law says someone is entitled to use deadly force if they “had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry or unlawful and forcible act was occurring or had occurred.” It also applies if a person is attacked in a public place “where he or she has a right to be.”

Category: Feel Good Stories