Thursday morning feel good stories

RedTag sends us a link from Phoenix, Arizona;

The Phoenix Police Department says a witness shot and killed a man who was trying to rob a Walgreens on Tuesday night.

The incident happened around 7:10 p.m. at the store near 35th Avenue and Union Hills.

According to police, the suspect approached the Walgreens pharmacy counter and demanded oxycodone. The suspect was wearing a wig at the time.

The armed customer who shot the suspect is cooperating with police as they continue to investigate. No other injuries are reported.

Life-saving efforts were performed on the suspect who died from his injuries at the scene.

There were about a dozen people inside the store at the time of the robbery and shooting.

From Eureka, California;

On Tuesday at approximately 8:14 p.m., officers with the Eureka Police Department responded to the alley behind a gas station at the 1300 block of 5th Street for a report of shots fired. Once on scene, officers located a male subject down in the alley with gunshot wounds to his torso. The male was unresponsive and medical personnel were summoned to the scene. The male subject was transported to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The male’s identity will be released once the next of kin has been notified.

The shooter was identified as a uniformed on duty armed security guard for a local security company. There were multiple eye witnesses to the incident who cooperated with investigators and provided consistent statements. The investigation suggests that the security guard was confronted by the male subject in the alley as the guard was trying to exit his vehicle. A confrontation took place and the male subject brandished a knife and attempted to stab the security guard. The security guard fired his weapon ending the assault.

From Fitchburg, Massachusetts;

Two men committing an armed home invasion at an Arcadia Avenue rooming house were forced to flee after a resident fired a blank cartridge at them using a replica handgun early Tuesday morning, according to a police report of the incident.

The 33-year-old who intervened heard the home invasion in progress, went to the apartment where it was occurring and saw two men attacking another man, according to the report.

He then went back to his apartment for the replica handgun, returned to the scene of the attack and fired at the two men, who then fled on foot, according to the report.

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