Sunday morning feel good stories
From Hillsborough, North Carolina;
Pastor Austin Brown was studying alone Thursday afternoon in Five Forks Baptist Church when he heard a noise.
He saw a strange car in the parking lot of the church, located in the rural northern Orange County community of Cedar Grove, and drawing his pistol from his pocket, he continued to investigate. As he rounded a corner, he found a man in the church office. He thought about his wife and baby daughter, who were due to arrive at any time, and the women decorating in the church’s fellowship hall, he said.
Brown, 27, said he doesn’t recall what he said to the man – later identified as Cory Vondell Bradshaw, 38, of 3135 Callaway Drive in Mebane. Bradshaw took off running when he saw the pistol, Brown said, and he followed, firing a warning shot and then two shots at the man’s car. As Bradshaw sped off, Brown returned to the church to call 911.
“Based on the (concealed carry) training they give you, they tell you when you have a legal right to defend yourself,” he said. “I didn’t want to hurt Mr. Bradshaw at all. I just wanted to try to prevent him from escaping, and the way I knew to do that was to disable his vehicle.”
Orange County Sheriff’s deputies, investigators, and K9 and civil process officers responded around 3 p.m. and began their search. A gunshot that hit the car’s tire left Bradshaw with a flat a few miles from the church. Deputies said he pulled behind an abandoned golf course on McDade Store Road to change the tire, and that’s where Sgt. Brandon Lassiter found him with the spare tire in hand.
Bradshaw fled on foot, leaving his car behind, Lassiter reported. Deputies began searching the woods and finding Bradshaw around 5 p.m. near the intersection of Carr Store and Compton Road.
Category: Feel Good Stories
“Based on the (concealed carry) training they give you, they tell you when you have a legal right to defend yourself,”
Yeah, I’m sure they told you to shoot out the tires when they flee.
It worked on the A Team
This pistol packin’ Padre needs to attend some remedial firearms training.
I congratulate that Pastor for taking the initiative and carrying a concealed firearm but I’ll be surprised if he is not arrested. There isn’t even a mention of the guy actually stealing anything.
Don’t fire at a vehicle unless the guy is trying to run you over. Don’t fire a warning shot unless you are being threatened. Get the LP of the car and call the police.
The jerk doesn’t NEED to steal something, its obvious to even a dumocrap what he was there for!
The Pistol Packin’ Padre needs a lesson in deadly force.
You simply don’t shoot at a person who isn’t a threat to you and is running away. There was nothing in that Church worth killing someone for that isn’t trying to hurt you or someone else.