Wednesday morning feel good stories
From Las Vegas;
When police arrived, they found the woman hiding in a closet, McGrath said. She had been shot in the arm and was taken to University Medical Center.
“The people inside the residence are pretty shaken up,” McGrath said.
The homeowner shot both intruders, but police were not sure who shot the woman. The homeowner did tell police both men who entered the home were armed.
There were no signs of forced entry to the home, McGrath said, adding the door might’ve been open or unlocked.
Shortly after the shooting, a man in his 20s arrived at Centennial Hills Hospital — less than two miles from the shooting site — with a gunshot wound to the buttocks. From Centennial Hills, the man was taken to UMC.
McGrath said the man told police he was not shot at the Hesperides house, but police think he was involved with the home invasion.
From Forest City, Arkansas, Lisa Douglas’ business had been burglarized three times this year, and she was fed up with it;
Angered by the act, Douglas, a 45-year-old single mother, said she decided to spend the night at her business last Wednesday to watch over it herself.
Just as she expected, she said she woke to the sound of someone at the window, and dashed to the kitchen to dial 911.
“I was scared to death,” she admitted.
Douglas said she was then face-to-face to the alleged burglar, 31-year-old James Ray Davis, as she kept the dispatcher on the phone.
“He got right there and I told him to stop and put his hands up,” Douglas said. “I let him know I did not want to shoot him.”
Davis was arrested minutes later when the Forrest City Police Department arrived. Davis was charged with commercial burglary and is currently being held at St. Francis County Jail.
Douglas said her carry permit allowed her to feel safe that night.
Investigators say a little before 11 p.m. Monday on the 300 block of Madero, the driver of an SUV gave a man a ride. Police were told that during the ride, the new passenger showed a gun and tried to rob the driver. At some point there was a struggle for the gun, and the new passenger was shot in the elbow.
From Deerfield Beach, Florida;
[James] Murray, 74, heard a neighbor’s window panes break at the Penthouse North condos about midnight Saturday, according to a police report. His friend, Jackie Jessee, was not home at the time.
Murray found a burglar trying to get into the ground floor unit. The man — 50 years younger and 6 inches taller — charged him, and Murray fired one shot and missed, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said.
Nearby, Deputies Moises Carotti and Lee Geiger were looking for a suspicious person along East Hillsboro Boulevard, also in Deerfield Beach. They heard a gunshot that came from about a block away.
When they arrived, they found Murray pointing a handgun at Garrett Ford Plump, 24, a report said.
Plump, of Pompano Beach, was arrested on suspicion of committing burglary with assault or battery, and unarmed burglary of an unoccupied dwelling. He is being held in a Broward County jail on a $5,000 bond.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Here are four instances of thugs attempting to take from law abiding citizens. in some of the cases the good citizens suffered wounds.
In one case that is not so, and largely because the attempted victim was trained and legally licensed to carry concealed:
She said her carry permit allowed her to feel safe that night. Get trained, as this lady did, and become more familiar with your firearm than with your phone. (Your phone will entertain you, but your firearm can save your life.)
Gotta learn the do’s and don’ts, too…story this morning says a guy who decided to cowboy his way into a situation and fired a warning shot had his concealed license taken away by the judge . Turned out to be two (black) health care guys trying to round up a (white) mental patient running around – the citizen tried to intervene with gun drawn and fired a warning shot into the ground. The judge decided his actions were so poorly thought out that he stripped the guy’s license.