Friday morning feel good stories

From Gun Barrel City, Texas;

“My dog has two barks,” [Homeowner Carrie Dearmond, 60] said. “One is just a small bark, and the other when he sees something, he barks viciously. This was a vicious bark.”

Lundy, in an effort to find out why the dog was barking, came face-to-face with Matthew Dennis, 31, of Seagoville, in the living room.

While Lundy was confronting the intruder, Dearmond was retrieving a .22-caliber handgun from her bedroom.

Lundy said the man was confused when he told the couple he was looking for his child.

“We told him we don’t have any kids here,” said Dearmond. “He admitted to us he was on drugs.”

Even though Dearmond was pointing a gun at the suspect, he proceeds to threaten Lundy.

“He told me he was going to kill me,” Lundy said.

Dearmond held Dennis at bay in the kitchen.

“He looked like he wanted to pull a knife on us. I told him to get away from the knives, or I would shoot,” said Dearmond.

Dearmond, a stage-four cancer patient, said, “I really thought something bad was going to happen. I have never been so scared.”

Lundy was on the phone with 9-1-1, and recording the incident, while Dearmond held the gun on the intruder.

“The Gun Barrel Police arrived pretty fast,” said Dearmond. “But there were only two of them.”

Gun Barrel City Police Chief Damon Boswell said that among other law enforcement, the Henderson County Sheriff’s swat team was notified.

“We have a pretty good relationship with the sheriff,” said Boswell. “They came to the scene to help.”

Dearmond said she released the gun when the police ordered her to put it down. That is when the standoff started. Dennis barracked himself in a bedroom.

“He destroyed the room. He broke the window, the bed, mirrors, broke the doors on the closet and put holes in the ceiling. He trashed the entire room,” Dearmond said. “ I think he was trying to find a way out. But there were police all outside.”

While in the bedroom, Dennis found a 9-mm gun. Dearmond, whose husband died seven years ago, lives by herself. She said she keeps the guns for protection.

“I have never been scared here,” said Dearmond. “I have never had to use the guns.”

The 4-hour bizarre incident ended when Gun Barrel City Investigator Monte Mansfield negotiated with Dennis to surrender. No shots were fired during the tense standoff.

From Dayton, Ohio;

…a woman called 911 Tuesday night to report that a man she knew was breaking into her house in the 200 block of East Fairview Avenue. The woman called back a short time later to say that she shot the man.

Officers had sought the man, 53-year-old Darron Orr, in connection with “serious crimes” he committed on Monday, said Dayton Police Sgt. John Riegel.

The woman in the house was the victim in the previous alleged crime, officers said.

Mr Orr was DRT (dead right there).

From Batesville, Mississippi

Investigators with Batesville Police Department said the suspects were both 17 years old and had managed to climb up the electrical meter, onto the roof, and through an air duct in the ceiling.

“They walked around there and I put it on them and made them lay in the floor,” [Storeowner, Farris] Cole said. “And while they were laying in the floor, he was trying to get a hold of his gun to shoot me, and I shot him in the ear. I thought I had killed him because I turned him over, he was hollering you know, you shot me in the ear. So about that time, the police got here.”

Police said the suspect who was shot was taken to the Panola Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries, and the other was taken to the Desoto County Juvenile Facility.

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