Friday morning feel good stories
First stop is Mississippi where two fellows tried to turn their lives around with the booty from a convenience store;
Sam Alamari, who owns the store, says his brother showed up after the two men forced their way inside and shot at the robbers, hitting one of the men multiple times, in the leg and lower back. Sam says that man should feel lucky he wasn’t the one shooting.
“It’s me, I’m not going to shoot him in the legs, I’m going to shoot him in the head,” he says. “There’s nobody coming to me because you know me, I’m going to shoot him, I’m going to kill him.”
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The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Dept. says they held that clerk at gunpoint, and demanded money, cigarettes and the surveillance DVD. One of the men got away, but the injured suspect was carried away from a home just down the street on Omitted Road in an ambulance.
“He deserved to get shot,” nearby resident Angela Davis says. “He come up in this man’s store, trying to take his money, the money that he worked hard for, and you just don’t take from people like that.”
Sheriff Billy Sollie says they’re seeing more cases with victims fighting back.
“It’s becoming more and more commonplace where citizens are arming themselves and telling the bad guys, ‘Don’t mess with me,'” he says.
The next stop is Iowa;
The officers were met by two individuals who said when they arrived at the residence they were confronted by two suspects displaying weapons.
The individuals were forced into the residence, where the two suspects began searching the residence, police said.
While the suspects were searching the house, one of the alleged robbery victims retrieved a firearm, police said. Shots were exchanged between the victim and one of the suspects. The victims ran from the house and saw the two suspects leave the house and enter a dark-colored vehicle, police said.
Police have not released the names of any of the people involved.
About the same time police were called to the residence, police received a call from Mercy Medical Center North’s Emergency Department with a report of treating a gunshot victim. The gunshot victim was identified as one of the suspects from 19th Place, police said.
The last stop this morning is in Florida;
[Police] tell WINK News at least two suspects rammed a truck into a fence at the Discount Battery located at 3911 Palm Beach Boulevard in an attempt to rob the store.
An employee staying late fired shots at the suspects who then fled the scene in a truck.
One witness says, “we were inside our room and we heard a bang, bang, bang. A lot of gunshots and we ran outside and was talking to 911 and the owner came out. I said ‘I called the police for you sir’ and he said ‘thank you.’”
NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral
As always, thanks to Chief Tango for the links.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Nothing like being allowed to defend yourself! Any of those goblins in say, Chicago, Baltimore, DC, NJ, or NYC never have to worry about their intended victims being legally armed and able to defend themselves, it proves that Gun Control Laws aid criminals!
Please remind me – why is it that the news organizations in those cities felt that their readers and viewers want to know about these stories but the national news outlets don’t think that we want to know about them?
Seems to me that fighting back is a significant national trend related to the nationwide drop in the crime rate. Or maybe not. Maybe we have always fought back and the “defensive use of guns” rate has not changed.
Has this been going on for a long time and I just didn’t notice?
Were these stories always there but the internet made local stories nationally available and good guys like the Chief find them and send them to Jonn?
Americans like to study stuff, I read Lott and Kleck. I wonder if there are good statistics on this.
I’m thoroughly convinced that the liberal mess media ignores these stories because they contradict their liberal agenda, thus the censorship and bias.
Business owner shoots bad guy while attempting to steal hard earned money = Hero.
Cop shoots bad guy fleeing a business where he stole hard earned money = Racist, Out of Control, Excessive Use of Force.
Am I the only one missing something here?
Am I the only one missing something here?
Yes, the media’s bias.
Don’t forget young black male shoots another black male, no press whatsoever.
And of course, young black male shoots mother 3 times while attending a “Stop the Violence” peace vigil for her son, a young black male killed by another young black male in Milwaukee.
You just can’t make this shit up…
http://www.wisn.com/news/mother-of-homicide-victim-among-those-shot-at-vigil/33073974
Check out the message that the owner put up on the sign at 1:37 of the video. The background is dark. So I’m guessing that was during the time immediately after the robbery. The sign says, “ADDICTED TO THE HOKEY POKEY TURN YOURSELF AROUND”. Hmmm. Sounds like a nasty little message for the one who got away….