Wednesday morning feel good stories
From Lafayette, Indiana;
Lafayette police said the intruders walked into a home in the neighborhood Sunday around 2 p.m. The homeowner then chased the invaders out with a gun.
“That doesn’t happen out here that much. Or well, it never did but it seems like it’s going to now,” said Edwin Grady.
The intruders then hopped into their car, and the homeowner jumped into his and a rolling pursuit broke out.
“There was an exchange of gunfire,” said Lt. Brian Gossard. “We did locate some evidence at the scene to indicate that rounds were discharged. We’re just lucky no one was hurt or killed in this incident.”
The chase headed towards Shadeland, then looped back towards Lafayette.
“The victim vehicle broke down around Shadeland then the suspect vehicle was later located on Veteran’s Memorial, also disabled. It had blown a tire,” said Gossard.
The three men then ran away from police after their car broke down. Gossard said the invaders’ car was stolen from Chicago.
“Suspects did get away for now,” said Gossard. “But we’re still doing some follow up.”
From Temple, Texas;
Matt Skelton said when he was getting ready for bed, he checked his security cameras one last time – that is when he saw someone in his ford expedition.
At the time, without hesitation he said he grabbed his gun and ran outside to “get him to stop”.
After Skelton’s neighbor came out to help hold him for police, Skeleton set off his house alarm to call police.
Temple PD identified the suspect as 19-year-old Jaime Hernandez-Ortiz who remains in the Bell County Jail at this hour on $2,500 bond.
Skelton, who retired from the Military said while he didn’t’t hesitate to confront the suspect, he’s glad it never escalated and he never had to defend himself.
“You don’t wanna have to shoot a kid you know,” Skelton said. “and he wasn’t a kid, he was 19 so that didn’t matter.
From Gresham, Illinois;
The 39-year-old man was in the 8300 block of South Elizabeth at 8:15 p.m. when he was approached by a 24-year-old man, according to Chicago Police.
The younger man shot the older man in the abdomen, and the older man returned fire, striking the alleged robber twice in the legs and twice in the neck, police said.
The younger man was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, police said. His name has not yet been released by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The older man was also taken to Christ, where he was listed in serious condition, police said.
From Cypress, Texas;
When deputies arrived, they found a black man, identified as Derek Cooper with two gunshot wounds to his abdomen.
Investigators learned that the person who shot Cooper was trying to sell him a cellphone he’d advertised on Craigslist.
The victim met with Cooper and a juvenile at that location for the exchange of the phone for money, when suddenly the juvenile pointed a handgun at the complainant and demanded all his money.
The victim handed over the phone and money, and then the juvenile and Cooper demanded all he had in his vehicle.
The man told investigators he went to his car, grabbed his own handgun and fired two rounds, hitting Cooper twice.
The juvenile ran off, but was quickly caught by deputies, who were responding to the area.
Derek Cooper was arrested, and charged with robbery, and is in the hospital and will be booked into the Harris County Jail upon his release, according to the Harris County Pct. 4 Constable’s Office.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Re-read the Lafayette, IN story and imagine banjo music.
With narration by Waylon Jennings.
One would think folks would wise up and do their Craigslist transaction in, say, the local Sheriff’s parking lot.
I had no idea that Lafayette, IN, was such an exciting place.
Hell, Lafayette is way, way bigger than West Hog Flats. West Hog Flats is where one would imagine the Dueling Banjoes would be playing every night.
Between Lafayette, West Lafayette,(home to Purdue University and two other colleges) and Tippecanoe County, the population is probably around 175,000.
So not exactly Hicksville. Down in Lafayette is where I ate my first ever McDonalds burger and fries back when you paid 15 cents for both of them put together.
Add on: If you drive a Subaru, it probably rolled out of the assembly plant there at Lafayette.
Just saying.
The Lafayette, IN story has so many fails on so many levels.
The others have pretty good outcomes all around.
Where I live, the Lafayette, IN story would have ended with all parties under arrest. You cannot get in your vehicle and pursue a home intruder. Unless the assailant has say, a hostage, and your intent is to follow the hostage but not to shoot it out in neighborhoods along the way.
Yeah, that was pretty stupid. If you run someone off, call the cops – don’t PLAY cop. You can’t even do that kind of thing in Texas. What if an UN-involved bystander got hurt?
That Cypress TX is a mis-ID; that street is in Spring east of I45 – probably 25 mils away from Cypress. And no, a bad deal going down in that neighborhood would not shock anyone.
Nope.