Monday morning feel good stories

Chief Tango sends us link from Airway, Washington;

After serving six years in the Army, combat veteran Jonathan Kiner never thought he would pull his gun on anyone ever again. Kiner and his family went grocery shopping at the Walmart in Airway Heights. They paid and walked out to their SUV and started loading it up. Nothing seemed out-of-the ordinary until Kiner walked over to the driver’s side.

“That’s when the door popped open and he was sitting in there and everything escalated from there,” he explained.

The strange man attempted to bolt from the car but Kiner was able to get a hold of him.

“I said, ‘Do not fight me I don’t want to hurt you,’” he said. “But the safety of my family was first and foremost.”

He pulled out his registered pistol to subdue the man. He let the suspect know he had a concealed carry permit.

“He tried to struggle a little bit, I got him to the ground and he kind of just balled up into a turtle position and I held him there and held him down,” Kiner said.

Airway Heights police identified the man as Jared Austin. He was arrested and cited for misdemeanor second degree vehicle prowling. Kiner said he showed police his concealed hand gun carry permit and he was free to go. The entire ordeal stuck with him.

From Farmington, Missouri;

Farmington Police Chief Rick Baker said at about 4 a.m. dispatch received a call in reference to a burglary in progress in the 1200 block of Dawn St.

“The reporting party told dispatch they heard gunshots and believed someone was in their basement,” said Baker. “When the officer arrived at the scene they located a large basement and egress window at the rear of the residence that had been broken out.”

Baker said that’s what the officer thought was a possible point of entry and the other officer spoke with the homeowner at the front door.

“They stated they were certain they could hear someone in the basement and the officers actually evacuated the homeowner and his wife,” Baker said. “They started to descend down the staircase to the basement and they could hear someone down there.”

Baker said the officers saw an empty gun case and boxes of ammo on the floor. He added the officer shouted out multiple commands for the suspect, later identified as Cody Crayton, 29, of Park Hills, to come out with his hands in sight.

“There was no response from the suspect and the officer then reported hearing multiple shots fired in the basement,” said Baker. “So the officers exited the house and took cover around their vehicles. Shortly after they heard another series of gunshots coming from within the residence.”

Baker said a short time later the suspect came out of the front door of the home with an assault rifle in his hand.

“The officers fired on the suspect hitting him and then approached him,” said Baker. “They were able to subdue him, take him into custody and they saw he was shot or hit one time in his right side. It was more of a flesh wound, a superficial wound.”

Baker said fire and EMS were contacted and the suspect was treated briefly at the scene before being taken to Parkland Health Center. He added that Crayton was later released from the hospital about an hour and a half later and was then taken into custody.

From Conroe, Texas;

Authorities say a woman in a north Houston suburb has shot and killed another woman who was trying to break into her home.

Montgomery County Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Wayne Mack says 38-year-old Marci Green was pronounced dead at a Conroe hospital early Sunday after she was shot around midnight.

Deputies say the woman inside the house told them Green first tried to get in through the front door of her Conroe-area home, then she shot her as Green went around to the back of the home and tried to get in through a door there.

The shooting remains under investigation.

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