Tuesday morning feel good stories

In France 85,000 have signed a petition in support of a Hérault property owner who shot and killed a burglar on October 5.

The petition is accompanied by an open letter to Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet headlined: A victim risks imprisonment for protecting his family.

A Facebook support page, meanwhile, has nearly 48,000 likes, for ‘Daniel’, a landscape gardener, whose Saint-Adrien venue in Servian, near Béziers, as featured on France 2 show Le jardin preferé des Français.

He faces a manslaughter charge after shooting one of two burglars who broke into his home. He reportedly told police that the pair were armed, and attacked him and his wife.

Franceinfo reports that he then seized a gun that he owns to drive wild boar from his award-winning gardens, and shot one of the criminals as they headed upstairs in search of valuables.

The other burglar fled the scene.

From Volusia County, Florida;

An 81-year-old homeowner shot at a man who tried to break into his Edgewater-area home Monday morning, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.

The victim said he was lying in bed around 9:15 a.m. when he heard someone knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell. He looked out the window and saw a man he didn’t recognize, so he didn’t open the door, the report said.

The man then put on gloves and went to the back of the house.

The victim grabbed his .22-caliber pistol then he heard a window break and saw the man reaching through the window to clear away the shattered glass, according to deputies.

The homeowner said he feared for his and his wife’s safety so he fired three to four shots at the man. The man then fled to his mid-2000s Chevrolet Silverado 1500, authorities said. The victim fired three to four more shots at the truck as it sped away.

It’s possible the man was shot or grazed by a bullet, deputies said.

“I fired a whole bunch of them. I don’t know whether I hit him or not, one time I heard him say, ‘Oh,'” the victim told a 911 operator.

From Clio, South Carolina;

Lt. Sara Alberri explains that the suspect entered the store, pulled out a gun and assaulted the store owner. During the robbery, the store owner shot the suspect, but they were still able to get away with the money.

Later in the day, the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office was able to find the suspect and retrieve the money.

The suspect is currently in the hospital in stable condition.

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