Wednesday morning feel good stories

From Puyallup, Washington;

It was just before 2 a.m. Sunday when a man who lives in the home in the 17700 block of 75th Avenue East heard an alarm go off indicating someone had opened a back door.

He woke up his roommate, who grabbed a handgun, and both men went downstairs to investigate the noise.

Deputies said they found two men in ski masks in one of the rooms. One burglar was holding a gun and a television; the other was holding a vehicle rim.

The armed burglar allegedly tried to shoot the roommates, but the gun wasn’t working properly, sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

The roommate then fired his handgun three times at the burglars, who dropped the items they were holding and ran out the back door.

A search dog was unable to find them.

Detectives believe one of the burglars might have been shot during the confrontation and are asking anyone with information to call them.

From Alton, Illinois;

Simmons said the woman, 36, awoke to the sound of someone knocking on the door but she did not get out of bed to answer. He said no one lives in the first-floor unit.

“She then heard a banging noise on the side of the house,” Simmons said. The woman got out of bed and saw that the man had put a ladder against the house and was climbing up to an open window on the second floor of the building. The woman called 911 at about 8 a.m., and grabbed an aluminum baseball bat that she keeps for protection.

“He climbs through the window and gets into her bedroom,” Simmons said. “Then he sees her around the corner, yells at her and pushes her onto the bedroom floor. She gets up and waylays him,” hitting the man repeatedly with the bat before he flees out of the window.

Simmons said the woman was shaken, but not injured during the home invasion. Some of the bedroom furniture, though, was damaged during the altercation, he said.

The victim had kept police on the phone the entire time, with such calls being recorded, and the woman also recognized the man, the chief said.

From Cheboygan County, Michigan;

Cheboygan County deputies say a person accused of breaking into a house was shot when they got inside.

It happened at a home in Benton Township around 10 Sunday night.

Deputies say someone inside the home shot the person and then the suspect took off.

Deputies caught up with them, and called an ambulance to bring the person to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

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