Wednesday morning feel good stories

Amy sends us a story from Houston, Texas;

Investigators said four male suspects tied up the family inside the home using their shoelaces and pistol-whipped two of the male victims.

One of the teen victims said the suspects held a gun to his mother’s head and pistol-whipped his father and twin brother.

The teen added that his uncle who lives next door heard everything and confronted the suspects with a gun outside of the home.

Police said the uncle shot and killed one of the suspects and wounded another in the leg.

Two of the suspects remain at large.

The other day we talked about the Domino’s Pizza driver in Mesquite, Texas who killed a thief who tried to rob him. Initially it was reported that the delivery guy didn’t have a concealed weapon license. It turns out that he does have a license from Arizona which is valid in Texas.

Domino’s Pizza has suspended the driver as the investigation continues. A spokeswoman for the company didn’t return a phone call Monday seeking comment.

Mesquite resident Joyce Coologhan said she’s a friend of the driver, whom she declined to name. She wrote on social media that the driver had an out-of-state gun license hours before that information was published in a news report.

She described him as “a real nice guy” and an Air Force veteran who took a job as a Domino’s driver to supplement his disability benefits.

From Charlotte, North Carolina;

According to CMPD, Lavarius Mattess Patterson was nabbed after he accidentally shot himself in the leg while running from the robbery scene and then checked himself into a Charlotte hospital seeking treatment.

Witnesses told police that a black male entered the Kangaroo Express in the 10000 block of N. Tryon Street around 2:14 a.m. and robbed the store at gunpoint. The suspect then ran in the direction of E. Mallard Creek Church Road.

As police were looking for the suspect, someone notified CMPD that they had heard a gunshot and saw a man limping away from the area.

Jamie, down in Dallas, Texas got lucky;

Jamie was lying in his bed when he heard the footsteps. The robbers entered through the back door, just after his wife left for the airport.

“He pointed the gun at me and he said, ‘Don’t you say a thing. Don’t you dare move,’” says the 65-year-old M Streets homeowner. “He had the gun to my head and he made me turn over on my stomach.”

WFAA is concealing his identity because Jamie is terrified the home invasion robbers will return.

The next five minutes felt like an eternity.

“I still feel the gun on the back of my head,” he recalls. “He kept saying, ‘Where is the safe?’ and I would say, ‘I don’t have the safe’ and he would press [the gun] into my head.”

Jamie waited for an hour and 27 minutes for Dallas police officers to arrive. They just didn’t have enough officers to respond sooner to the home invasion robbery.

Jamie is fine, but by the grace of God.

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