Wednesday Morning Feel Good Stories
It’s been a few days since our last feel good story, so Chief Tango found five to make up for it. The first is from Ohio, where a couple of youths tried to rob a shoe store at gun point;
The two armed suspects entered the store in the Northwest Plaza Shopping Center, 3217 Siebenthaler Ave., about 11 a.m. and one brandished a gun, police said.
“Somebody just tried to rob my store and I killed one of them,” a caller told a 911 dispatcher. “I shot him. He had a gun.”
Detectives interviewed the owner and a female customer who was in the store at the time of the shooting, said Dayton police Lt. Matthew Dickey.
Police did not release the name of the shooter Monday, and it’s unlikely that he will face charges, although the suspect who fled the scene may be charged when he’s in custody.
“At this point, it does appear to be self-defense, but we are going through a full investigation to determine that,” Dickey said.
The next is from Pennsylvania where a woman defended herself with a pellet gun;
Sunbury police believe a man broken into this house Sunday night. When the woman who lives there came home and saw the intruder, she shot him at least twice with a pellet gun. Investigators say the man got away through the back door of the house. Cops believe the home invasion was random.
“Being this close, I just found out about it so I’m getting a little concerned, but not that concerned because we can protect ourselves,” Brian Clark said.
Next is North Carolina;
The incident happened Friday shortly after 11 p.m. at a home on Jenkins Valley Road, according to a sheriff’s office incident report.
The 67-year-old homeowner fired a handgun at the intruder, who fled.
“It is unknown at this time if the intruder was shot,” sheriff’s office spokeswoman Natalie Bailey said.
The intruder forcibly gained entry into the home through a back door, according to the incident report.
Next stop is Washington State;
Around 7:30 a.m. Friday, a man and his girlfriend were in their living room at their home in the 2900 block of Little Hanaford Road in Centralia when a homeless 43-year-old stranger entered armed with a knife, police said.
The homeowner grabbed a shotgun, police said, and ordered the intruder out of the house. The two walked outside, but instead of leave, the intruder pushed the homeowner down stairs on the back porch. The intruder then grabbed a machete sitting on the porch and approached the homeowner.
Thinking quickly, the homeowner hit the intruder with the butt of the shotgun, knocking him to the ground. He then held the intruder at gunpoint until sheriff’s deputies arrived.
Finally, our last cross-country stop is in Alaska;
The unidentified victim of a break-in phoned MATCOM dispatch early this morning at 3:06 am to report that there was a burglary in progress at a residence on Limberlost Avenue in Wasilla. During the call, the 65-year-old homeowner said that the individuals had forced open her kitchen door and gained access to the residence.
But, the burglar’s foray into the woman’s home would prove to be short-lived. The homeowner, awakened by the burglars attempting to start the ATV, and armed with a pistol, fired a single shot at the burglars causing them to flee the house, get into a vehicle and speed away from the property.
The trooper investigation at the residence revealed that two unknown individuals pulled up into the woman’s driveway and attempted to hot-wire and steal an ATV parked there. When they were unsuccessful at that, the decided to break into the home instead.
Category: Feel Good Stories
The video is interesting. At first as I was watching the trash scream and moan I was prepared for another “he was a good boy and we’s gonna sue the guy that shot him” rant but it ended with the grandmother saying they just wanted to know what was going on. Fair enough.
ok, in PA the lady used a Pellet Gun????? WTF, someone get her a decent weapon to defend herself. That will get her assaulted or killed.
jonp…I agree, range time and more caliber is called for in PA. Pellet guns are for critters not intruders.
As to grandma in Ohio, she is saying it is the stores word only that is was self defense because the kid’s dead. Now they know damned good and well junior walked the streets armed. So I do see a potential lawsuit under the “he was a good boy who loved his family” defense. This didn’t happen in a vacuum. They knew who he was and what he was up to, which obviously was not struggles to keep that 3.5GPA going.
I watched the local news channel’s coverage of the Ohio shooting. Two videos. One the little sixteen year old gang banger pointing his finger at the camera banger style. He was tough you know. Then the momma, wailing and hollering outside the police lines at the store shouting, “where my baby at, where my baby! Where my baby at!” Then the home video of the saddened family as they say they just want answers. Where was he shot. Was it self defense? (Already determined by police from accounts of the store clerk who shot him and other customers who saw him and his partner, who was caught a couple hours later, enter the store armed and wearing masks, demanding money.) The family said it’s their (the store’s) word only cause he gone. Was it self defense?
Dumb ass grandma doing the talking and mom sitting their with wailing sister or somebody and another banger type consoling her. If they had spent more time with “junior” at home and in school instead of letting him run the streets armed, maybe he would be alive now. But no, as usual, it is some other person’s fault he’s dead. He was a good boy after all. He loved his family and (my words) probably committed crimes and robberies on a regular basis to you know, help the family out in tough times. All the little extras they needed that you can’t get with welfare money or a SNAP card. Screw the little thug and I’m glad we don’t have to support him till he’s 18 then let him out and so he can continue his war against, “the man” who’s been “keepin’ him down” for years. The other thug they caught, also a juvenile, we will have to support but he will be up on accessory to murder charges since in his little Pancho and Cisco escapade went south and his “main man” was killed in an attempted armed robbery. That according to the news.
16 year old kid with gang forearm tattoos.
They knew what he was doing.
Now the pals of dead scumbag are making threats to store employees: http://www.whio.com/news/news/crime-law/man-charged-menacing-fatal-shooting-scene/ngXHm/
What a wonderful bunch of citizens.