Saturday morning feel good story

Chief Tango sends us our first feel good story to kick off the weekend. This one comes from Texas;

Through their preliminary investigation, the officers learned that a 48-year-old property owner was leaving a nearby office when he was approached by a subject who produced a weapon and demanded money.

“The property owner stated that he was able to obtain a weapon from his vehicle and fired multiple shots in self defense,” the press release stated.

The 26-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Larry Whitworth. The body was sent off to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science for an autopsy.

SJ sends us one from North Carolina, where the homeowner didn’t use a gun, but still rids us of one more criminal – 37-year-old Ralph Edward Whitney was using the homeowner’s shower;

“I’m very sorry for what took place, but my husband didn’t really mean to take Ralph’s life,” said Smith.

Smith said it all started at about 4 a.m. Thursday, when she and her husband heard someone in their home at Kelly Park Apartments on Shipman Road in Havelock. When her husband went to check it out, he found the uninvited Whitney in the shower, Smith told NewsChannel 12.

Police said Smith’s husband and Whitney then got into an argument, before Smith’s husband stabbed Whitney. Smith then called 911.

“[I] was scared really because [Whitney] was in a rage. He was always telling him and other people he was going to kill us,” Smith said.

Police said Whitney left the apartment after he was stabbed. But officers were able to eventually find him by following a blood trail to the area of the Eastwood Apartment Complex. Police said Whitley was still alive but unresponsive. He later died at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.

Category: Feel Good Stories