Sunday morning feel good stories

Chief Tango sends a link from Ocala, Florida;

Deputies said they were called to a convenience store at the intersection of Southwest Highway 200 and Southwest 80th Street for an armed robbery.

When detectives arrived at the store, they saw a masked man with a gun, later identified as Rodney Snow, 33, walk out and get into the passenger side of car that had been waiting outside, Marion County deputies said.

The driver of the vehicle, Christina Gaud, 30, fled from deputies before she crashed near the 7900 block of Southwest 80th Street, deputies said.

Snow then got out of the car and ran toward a wooded area outside the Indigo East neighborhood, the Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies said detectives surrounded Snow in the wooded area and he shot himself.

Snow was taken to a nearby hospital, where he remained in the intensive care unit.

From Las Vegas Nevada, William Alfredo Chafoya was shot 19 times by Las Vegas police;

Police were dispatched about 5:05 p.m. to a residence on Welsh Circle in the northwest valley to conduct surveillance on a maroon Honda linked to a Sunday drive-by shooting, in which a bicyclist was shot in the calf, Fasulo said.

Sometime later, Chafoya, who matched the shooter’s description, and Olivetti entered the stolen car and officers tried to pull them over, but Chafoya ignored the lights and sirens and kept driving, Fasulo said.

The chase, which was approved by Metro leadership and tracked from a police helicopter, took the suspects from the west to the east valley, across area commands and jurisdictions, into North Las Vegas on Goldfield Street, where Olivetti lived, Fasulo said.

It’s now 7:19 p.m. and the suspects get out, the car rolls forward and only stops when it crashes into a parked car. The man and woman run toward the house, but Officers Tyler Hebb, a 35-year-old field trainer, and 22-year-old Brandon Foster, who was being trained, trail closely behind.

Chafoya fires a round with his stolen gun into the air then a continuous volley of pops breaks out, and “get on the ground!” commands go ignored until they fall wounded.

Fasulo said Chafoya fired four rounds in the officers’ direction, two of which struck a house. Olivetti was wounded when she ran into the gun battle, and a resident in the front yard where the shootout took place was uninjured, he added.

Quickly after, officers tend to the injured suspects. Chafoya wails in pain, “Sir, I’m dying. Sir, I’m dying!” A woman’s screams can be heard in the background.

Thanks to the officer’s quick decsion to apply tourniquets to Chafoya, the crook is still alive in the hospital;

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