Saturday morning feel good stories

From Gwinnett County, Georgia;

A man shot and killed someone who broke into his car and charged toward him outside the Gwinnett County home where he lives, police said.

The resident was upstairs when he heard a noise just before 1 a.m. Friday on Mayfield Farms Drive in unincorporated Lawrenceville, Gwinnett police Cpl. Wilbert Rundles said.

“He grabbed his firearm and went to investigate,” he said.

The resident found the intruder in one of his cars and confronted the man, police said.

“He verbally challenged the intruder,” Rundles said. “The intruder charged at the resident and the resident fired more than one shot, striking the intruder.”

[The intruder] died on the scene. The unidentified intruder’s body was found near the garage.

In Vero Beach, Florida;

A homeowner in Vero Beach exchanged gunfire with a person who he says broke into his home.

According to the Indian River County Sheriff’s office, Taylor Reese was sleeping in his home in the 300 block of 14th Place SW Thursday evening, when he heard his front door being kicked in.

Reece told police he grabbed his gun, then found Howard Bartee III standing in his house. The two then exchanged gunfire. Bartee was hit twice and ran off but was later arrested. He is in critical condition.

Deputies are searching for a second person of interest, Jessie Jones, 16 .

From Abilene, Texas;

Court documents state an Abilene homeowner was playing video games when his power went out, so he grabbed a gun and went outside to investigate.

Once outside, the homeowner saw a suspect, later identified as Rodriguez, carrying a baseball bat and wearing a bandana over his face, according to the documents, which state the homeowner fired his gun when Rodriguez began approaching the house in a threatening manner, striking him in the abdomen.

Police were able to determine the breakers were cut intentionally so the home would lose power. The documents state “Rodriguez did not deny that he and several friends had planned to rob [the victim], but when he got shot, his friends fled the scene.”

An update on the story from Fayetteville, North Carolina earlier this week;

In a 911 call released Friday, Quema told the 911 dispatcher a man – later identified as 51-year-old Jerome A. Allen – approached her, saying he was looking for a girl named Jasmine.

“This guy, he comes to me, he says, ‘I’m looking for a girl named Jasmine,” Quema explained. “… And then he stopped right in front of me and said, ‘Do you have an extra cigarette?’ And I handed him an extra cigarette and then pulled out a gun on me.”

The woman continued, claiming that Allen pushed her toward the apartment, demanding “all of her money.”

That’s when Quema said her husband, Fort Bragg soldier Dario Miranda, heard what happened and went for his gun.

“(Allen) pulled out a gun on me and my husband shot him,” Quema told the dispatcher with panic in her voice.

Donna Quiles, the property manager, said the apartment community has many military members among its residents.

“Military people around here, they’re gonna have guns,” Quiles said. “You can’t just go knock on a door and expect not to be met with a gun when you know that the military live here. And I support anybody who carries a gun to protect themselves.”

From Needles, California;

The woman told deputies she was in bed Wednesday evening when a man opened an unlocked door and entered her home, located in the 200 block of F Street, according to a news release from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

The intruder confronted the woman, pulling a gun from his waistband and making some type of statement to her, the release stated.

He was standing in the living room area when, according to the victim, her small dog attacked his leg. The man then left the home and fled in an unknown direction.

I guess California will have to outlaw small dogs in order to make the state safer for armed robbers.

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