Monday morning feel good stories

AW1Ed send us our first feel good story this week from Georgia. It actually happened a few weeks ago, but a burglar learned that he needed to do a better recon of his victim when he tried to rob 74-year-old Hilda Douglas;

Douglas said someone rang her doorbell around 9:45 p.m. on Aug. 3. She looked out her bedroom window and spotted a truck parked nearby in the middle of the intersection of Falconhurst Drive and Hewatt Road.

Douglas called 911 and waited.

Moments later, however, she heard glass shattering and then the pottery she placed in front of her backdoor breaking so she grabbed her gun.

According to the report, Douglas stayed in the bedroom but she “could see light from a flashlight getting closer from under the door. When she heard the doorknob turn, she fired one shot through the door.

“She then heard a scream on the other side of the door and the subject fled downstairs. Douglas went downstairs and saw the subject in the kitchen looking for the back door. She fired several more shots in the general direction of the subject as he ran outside.”

While detectives were still investigating at Douglas’s house, Jamie Christoper Lewis showed up at the Eastside Medical Center in Snellville with a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the chest. He was charged with burglary.

Chief Tango sends us another one from Georgia;

Tim Jackson was in the GameStop in the Eisenhower Crossing Shopping Center on Thursday during an armed robbery. He tells us he went in to GameStop to buy a $6 Star Wars video game for his son.

What happened next, he said, was something he’s only seen in the movies.

The suspects Javon Britton and Maryann Davis have been arrested and are in custody until their hearing in superior court.

Jackson says the man, Britton, walked in, “as cool as a cucumber,” saying he was waiting to check out.

Then Jackson heard, “Get on the ground or I’m going to start shooting.”

He was then robbed of $40 and says he hit the deck, keeping his face down on the ground.

Jackson says all he could think of were his wife and kids at home, saying his life flashed before his eyes.

He tells us the robber was only a few feet away, and he could make out that the robber was holding an assault rifle.

Jackson says he bought a gun several years ago to protect his family when his wife got pregnant. He says he’s had a carry permit for over six years.

When the suspect started to walk out of the store, Jackson said, one thing went through his mind, “I don’t want him to do this to anyone else.”

Jackson followed him out of the store, and got to his own car where he kept his gun. He says he got his gun and started looking for Britton.

Jackson says he met eyes with the suspect, and says Britton appeared to reach for his gun.

Jackson says that’s when he fired his first shot.

Another from Chief Tango comes from North Carolina;

A man was killed when he tried to break into a home on Brooklyn Circle early Saturday, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.

Theodore Horton, 23, who was homeless, was shot to death at a house on the 300 block of Brooklyn Circle in Hope Mills, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were called to the scene about 1:45 a.m. None of the residents inside the house were injured, officials said.

Technicians confirmed Horton’s identity through fingerprints and tattoo markings, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The next one is from Houston, Texas;

Deputies were called to a shooting at the Saddle Ridge Apartments on Woodforest just before 7am. When they arrived, they found out it was a home invasion.

Sgt. Gary Harrison says during that home invasion, the man who lives inside the apartment shot one of the suspects in self-defense. That young man was airlifted to Ben Taub Hospital.

Harrison tells us there were three suspects involved. One other was taken into custody. The third fled the scene once gunfire erupted.

The next story comes from San Antonio, Texas;

The shooting happened around 2:30am in the 100 block of W. Amber St.

Police at the scene say a man in his 20’s was shot in the chest and was transported to SAMMC where he later died.

Police said its possible the man who was shot was an intruder who kicked in the door of one of the apartments.

Police said a man inside the apartment opened fire on the intruder.

The last story, sent by Chief Tango, comes from Eureka, California;

At about 6 a.m., the resident noticed a truck parked near his house with one man inside and another standing on the street, according to Harpham. After the resident attempted to take a picture of the truck’s license plate and call 911, the man outside the car attacked the resident and a fight broke out, Harpham said.

The man in the truck allegedly attempted to scare off the resident by slowly driving toward the two fighting men, according to officials. The resident’s wife came out with a handgun after hearing the fight and fired a warning shot. As the truck continued toward the men, she fired another shot that hit the suspect in the leg. Evidence at the scene indicated that the two men may have been burglarizing cars, according to Harpham.

Harpham said the male resident and his wife are not going to press charges.

“It’s just a bad experience for them, and they just want everything to go away,” he said.

They’ll probably just all sit in a drum circle and share a doobie after the suspect recovers. Only in California do you feel guilty about someone who beat your ass in the street in front of your house.

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