Wednesday morning feel good story

Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories again this morning, The first is from Florida where an 89-year-old jewelry store owner, Arthur Lewis, whose marksmanship is showing improvement;

Confronted with an armed bandit trying to rob his jewelry store, 89-year-old Arthur Lewis decided to fight back, pulling his own handgun and shooting the robber six times.

Now, the suspect, who fled but ended up in a hospital, is facing charges while Lewis is trying to move on from the dramatic incident, which saw him fighting with a felon less than half his age – and getting the upper hand.

It’s not the first time Lewis has been forced to wield firepower to ward off robbers. In 2009, according to media reports, he exchanged gunfire with a young man who had also tried to rob the store, but nobody was hit.

This time, the suspect, Lennard Patrick Jervis, 43, of Miramar, was in the line of fire. According to deputies, he took four gunshot wounds to the chest, one to the wrist, and one to the leg in the failed heist.

The next story comes from Houston;

The trouble erupted at a cell phone repair shop in a shopping strip on West Road near Ella Boulevard, when two men initially identified as robbers walked into the store Monday around 4:30 p.m.

Authorities piecing together a series of confusing reports initially said the cell phone store was robbed and the owner chased the suspects to a Fiesta store on West Mount Houston Road. In the parking lot of the store, the store owner reportedly shot one of the suspects, forced the injured man into his vehicle and drove him away.

The initial report said the suspect suffering from a gunshot wound bolted out of the vehicle and later turned up at a nearby hospital. Meanwhile, investigators said, the second suspect was discovered in a residential area.

A final story from Nebraska;

The 73-year-old homeowner told KETV NewsWatch 7 everyone was asleep upstairs, when they heard suspicious noises initially thought to be storm related.

The homeowner said he grabbed a gun and started walking downstairs, when he saw someone trying to climb through a front window.

With the alarm system blaring, the homeowner said he yelled at the intruder to stop. But when the intruder didn’t stop, the homeowner said he shot the man.

When officers arrived, they found Jorge Ramirez on the front porch, bleeding.

Read more: http://www.ketv.com/news/homeowner-shoots-intruder-during-earlymorning-burglary-attempt/27732222#ixzz3BWjkJFcF

Category: Feel Good Stories