Monday morning feel good story

Marine_7002 sends us our first feel good story to start out the week from Detroit where two homeowners protected themselves and their families from rambunctious youths;

The incident is the second this week involving a homeowner who used a firearm to fend off intruders.

The most recent shooting happened at about 2 a.m. at a home in the 5000 block of Toledo, Detroit Police 3rd Deputy Chief Rodney Johnson said.

“After two men broke into the home, one of the suspects attempted to hit the homeowner with a tire-iron,” Johnson said. “A struggle ensued, and the homeowner managed to shoot both of them.”

A 21-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene of a gunshot wound to the chest, Johnson said. The second suspect, ran away.

On Monday, a woman made national news after she fired at three teens, ages 14, 14 and 15, who broke into her northwest side home. The teens were quickly arrested and charged with home invasion.

You might remember that we wrote about Detroit’s police chief, James Craig earlier when he came out for expanded gun ownership for lawful citizens. He took the opportunity of this incident to remind Detroit;

Craig has repeatedly stressed his belief that the city’s crime rate would be lowered if more responsible citizens were armed, because criminals would think twice about attacking them.

“I’ve said it many times: Good Americans with guns can help deter crime,” Craig said.

The second story, sent by Chief Tango, comes from Houston, where criminals are apparently hard-headed given that a number of these stories are coming out of Houston these days;

According to Harris County Sheriff’s deputies, an unknown number of men backed into the driveway in a white Ford F250 pickup, got out and began to break in through the front door. The 30-year-old homeowner, who was in bed at the time, grabbed his pistol and opened fire. One of the suspects was shot.

The suspects returned fire, spraying the front of the house with an assault rifle. One of the bullets went through a wall and hit the homeowner in the leg. He was airlifted to Memorial Hermann Hospital in stable condition.

Category: Feel Good Stories