Tuesday morning feel good stories

From Athens, Georgia;

The homeowner entered the house with his pistol drawn because of a noise he heard while unlocking the front door, according to police.

Upon going inside the man found a burglar with his face concealed by a stocking crouched in a hallway. The homeowner chased the intruder out a back door and fired three shots as the burglar ran toward some woods, police said.

The burglar returned fire four or four times from the woods. The homeowner was not injured and police said there was no evidence that the suspect had been shot.

The victim told police an AR-15 rifle he had recently purchased was missing, as was a bag of coins containing about $200.

From Lorain, Ohio;

The 32-year-old resident tells police he heard the suspect trying to get into the house and fired his gun.

Lorain police say the 21-year-old male suspect was shot one time in the right thigh. When officers arrived at the scene, they provided first aid to the suspect who was bleeding heavily.

EMS took him to Mercy Hospital and he was then flown to MetroHealth Hospital.

No names are being released at this time and police say the incident remains under investigation.

The homeowner was not injured.

From Church Hill, Virginia;

Investigators said that Ward used a propane tank sitting on the homeowner’s porch to bust out a window and gain entry into the house located on River Road in Church Hill. A woman inside the house was awakened by the crash and had her husband check out the noise when he spotted Ward in the kitchen window.

The suspect reportedly kept yelling “don’t shoot” while the homeowner pointed his shotgun, according to the report.

[Brock Alan] Ward also told officers that he had used meth prior to breaking into the home

In Palm Beach County, Florida;

The body of a would-be robber, who was fatally shot during a botched home invasion in Hollywood, stayed in the back seat of a car for days until being discovered in northern Palm Beach County.

The person who found Gilbert Stokes inside the tan Chevrolet sedan on Australian Avenue in Lake Park on Feb. 24 thought he “was sleeping,” according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

In reality, Stokes, 40, of Belle Glade, had been shot and killed four days earlier when he and two other men tried to rob people living in a home on Madison Street in Hollywood and one of the occupants shot him in the back, the report said.

Now, the driver who sped away with Stokes bleeding out in the back seat is charged with second-degree murder and armed home invasion.

According to investigators, Douglas Mackey, 53, drove to his home in Loxahatchee where he and another man put Stokes inside the four-door Chevrolet where he stayed until they moved the car and the body to Lake Park three days later.

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