Wednesday morning feel good stories

From Lexington, Kentucky;

It was an eventful Saturday morning for the quiet neighborhood. Chris Stevens, the homeowner, said a teen broke a lock on their daughter’s bedroom window and snuck inside. But she wasn’t home, instead he was greeted by the family dog.

Stevens says he woke up when he heard his wife screaming, so he grabbed his gun and pointed his pistol at the potential burglar.

Stevens says he held the teen at gunpoint until sheriff’s deputies arrived.

From San Antonio, Texas;

Police…said the owner of the van told them he was parked outside the restaurant, located near Loop 410 and McCullough, when another man broke into his vehicle.

Police said the owner, who was in the back seat at the time, fired at the suspect once then shot again as the suspect tried to run away.

The suspect was hit in the neck and died later at a hospital. His name has not been released yet.

Investigators are still determining whether the vehicle owner will face any charges.

Same story, different link;

Police said [39-year-old Anthony] Rangel and a woman drove into the same parking lot. Rangel reportedly got out and opened up the man’s van.

Officers said the van’s driver opened fire, shooting Rangel in the neck.

Rangel was transported and died at University Hospital and the woman who was in the car with him was not injured.

Investigators said the shooting was caught on the surveillance system of the restaurant.

From Mobile, Alabama;

[The homeowner] says he noticed something was wrong when someone tried to turn the doorknob outside his bedroom door while he was resting inside. The door opens to the deck.

“I didn’t know if he had a gun, I didn’t know if he had a weapon, I didn’t know how far he was willing to take it,” he said.

Then the suspected burglar went in the house through the other backdoor and flipped the circuit breaker in the entryway, according to the homeowner.

“That’s when I grabbed a handgun from my safe that I take hunting with me and I ran around to the other side. I had the handgun. I never had to use it, thank the Lord,” he said. “Because when he saw me, he took off.”

He says the suspect jumped the fence in the backyard and a getaway driver drove him away.

The victim is thankful his family wasn’t home and that nothing worse happened.

From Tulsa, Oklahoma;

Around 11:30 a.m., Tulsa County deputies responded to a fireworks stand near 65th and Charles Page Boulevard.

Witnesses said two men robbed the stand of about $600 in fireworks; the owner followed them and a shootout started.

As the robbers tried to get away, the stand owner jumped into the bed of the pickup and continued firing, before the owner got out.

A passenger was shot in the chest. A woman later found the body in the truck.

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