Thursday morning feel good stories

From Glen St. Mary, Florida;

Three men say they were asleep inside a mobile home in Glen St. Mary about 4 a.m. Sunday when they heard a voice outside yell “Sheriff’s Office!” before the front door burst open.

In stormed a masked gunman who fired off a single round before two of the men inside, one armed with an AR-15 rifle and the other with a handgun, emerged from two bedrooms and opened fire.

Gunfire ripped into the masked gunman and two other intruders, who crumpled to the floor with multiple gunshot wounds.

Those details surfaced Tuesday when the Baker County Sheriff’s Office released an arrest report linked to this weekend’s home invasion turned deadly triple shooting.

Five people are charged in the case. Investigators suspect the home invasion escalated from an ongoing feud between two groups that was stoked by social media threats.

The victims told deputies they acted in self-defense when they turned their guns on the intruders, with one of them estimating he fired over 30 rounds from an AR-15 before the threat was over.

Afterward, the victims retreated to another part of the home before they dialed 911, according to the report. None of them was hurt during the shooting.

The same cannot be said for the intruders, several of whom were inside a vehicle deputies intercepted as it sped away from the mobile home off County Road 125.

One of them, Corey Lauramore, died of gunshot wounds to the head. An unidentified 16-year-old remains hospitalized, and a third suspect, William Lauramore, was treated and released to police.

From Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK;

Former Thai boxer Anji Rhys, who kept the weapon on her wall to protect her family, sprung into action when four masked men burst into her home looking for a cannabis factory.
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They kicked down the door of the home in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, that she shares with her partner Rebecca McCarvel, 42, son Dillon, 22, and her elderly mother.

But the gang had not only gone to the wrong address – they had picked on the wrong person to rob.

Anji, 49, said: ‘I had finished work at about nine o’clock and got home. My partner was asleep on the sofa, my 82 year old mum and my son were asleep upstairs.

The gang had not only gone to the wrong address – they had picked on the wrong person to rob.

‘Ironically, I had put 24 hours in police custody on the television and it was 33 minutes in.

‘I heard what I thought was a massive explosion and then I realised it was my front door that was being kicked in.

‘I ran there and was met with a masked man with a hammer. He was about 6 foot 6 tall with a blue bandana hiding his face.

‘I ran and grabbed my crossbow and had a little tussle with a second man who had a machete. He went to grab it, but I managed to spin and shoot him in the belly with it at close range.

‘He shouted “You fucking bitch, you shot me”. At that point he fell on me, cutting my hand with the machete.

From North Charleston, South Carolina;

Officials with the North Charleston Police Department say shortly after 7 p.m. officers responded to the parking lot of 2170 Ashley Phosphate Rd in reference to a shooting.

A woman told a responding officer that she shot [Jason] Stinchcomb, who had been trying to get into her car and he was down in the parking lot somewhere, according to the incident report.

The officer then drove around and found Stinchcomb on the ground with a gunshot wound to the right leg and stated he had an odor of alcohol on his breath, according to the report.

Stinchcomb and the woman didn’t know each other, the report stated.

“The female confronted the suspect at which time she says the suspect advanced towards her,” NCPD officials said.

Stinchcomb was transported to Trident Hospital for treatment and is facing a charge of attempted carjacking.

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