Saturday morning feel good stories

So, now the summer season is in full swing now that Memorial Day is behind us, so the boys of summer are hard at work turning their lives around. Like in Detroit;

She goes by C.C. and didn’t want her full name to be used in this story. She took a wrong turn at Alma and Garnet avenues on her way to the hairdresser’s. While making a u-turn three men approached her car and tried to take it. They went as far [as] opening […] the door and shooting at her. There are two bullet holes.

However, the bold thieves learned they were messing with the wrong Detroiter.

“When I see him with the gun as he approached me to take the car, I lifted my gun up on the door and I began to shoot,” said C.C. “So when he shot I was shooting back.”

She keeps her gun — .357 caliber Sig Sauer G2 — in the side door of her vehicle. She has a concealed carry permit. It’s her weapon of choice which she has trained with at area ranges. It holds 13 hollow point rounds. She emptied the clip at the thieves who scurried away near some abandoned homes.

“All the residents of the city need to come together and take back this city from the thugs and the criminals that have taken over this city, and if you live in fear you’ll never bring this city back,” she said.

Police Chief James Craig approves. I disapprove of her use of the word “thug”, though – that’s racis….oh, wait…never mind.

In California, don’t go in strangers’ apartments, sit down and say crazy shit. To wit;

Police said, according to the man living in the apartment, a man he didn’t know walked into his apartment, where the door was unlocked but closed.

As detectives investigate exactly what happened, Lt. Mike Doyle with the Fresno Police Department said they are not ready to call it self-defense. He said no one else was in the apartment at the time.

“According to the person who did the shooting–that he (suspect) walked in, sat down, and began making very peculiar statements, kind of crazy talk statements,” Doyle said.

Doyle said, at some point, the man grabbed a shotgun from his room and shot the intruder.

When police got there they found the man, who had been shot once, collapsed outside the apartment.

In Texas, trying to rob a business owner isn’t recommended;

Avant told police he was taking a cash bag from his car into the store when Mayweather approached him while he was inside of his vehicle. Mayweather then sprayed him with a type of pepper spray and began to hit Avant in his face.

Avant said Mayweather took the money bag and left on a bicycle. That’s when Avant started chasing Mayweather behind AutoZone and the two exchanged gunfire. Avant was not hit, but Mayweather died on the scene.

Those who live right behind the businesses say they never expected anything like this to happen.

“I’m used to hearing gunshots and stuff here, you know, but it’s gotten better until this happened,” Wooten said.

KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, TX: newswest9.com |

In Philadelphia, real bullets work better than blanks;

While [an off-duty Philadelphia Police detective] was inside the family-run [Rising Sun Pizza] pizzeria waiting for his food, two other men entered the store. According to police, the men announced they were there to rob the pizzeria, and one of the men pulled out a gun and put it to the head of the detective, who was the only customer at the time. They took the $20 he was holding in his hand and made him get on the floor.

Meanwhile, a Rising Sun Pizza employee and the son of the pizza shop’s owner were still behind the counter, and the suspects turned their attention to them. It was then that the detective announced himself as a police officer and pulled out his gun.

Police say that’s when one of the would-be robbers started shooting, firing in the direction of the cop. Luckily, the crook decided to bring a six-shot blank gun revolver to the robbery — the cartridges produced noise and a muzzle flash, police said, but no projectiles — so the shooting did nothing to the cop.

The off-duty detective responded with gunfire of his own, hitting the one who shot at him. Police say that suspect was shot multiple times in the torso by the cop. The two suspects ran out of the store, and the one shot in the torso fell over nearby on the 500 block of Tyson Avenue. That suspect, described as a 33-year-old male, was pronounced dead at the scene shortly thereafter.

Finally, in Alabama;

A home invasion early Friday morning has left one suspect dead after he was shot by the homeowner.

The unidentified male is believed to have been shot by the female homeowner during a home invasion, according to Lt. Denise Barnes of the Montgomery Police Department.

Police responded at 3:45 a.m. Friday to a call that someone had been shot in the 1700 block of Gibson Street. A male was found with life-threatening injuries at the scene and was transported to a local hospital, according to Barnes..

He died several hours later.

A busy night for everyone with the forces of good triumphing over evil. Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.

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