Wednesday morning feel good stories

From Bend, Oregon;

Poole and his wife told The Bulletin they were awoken Monday by pounding in their basement and the sound of breaking glass. They sat up in bed and listened.

Poole went to the nightstand, took his revolver from inside a white sock and walked downstairs.

Poole worked 30 years for California Highway Patrol, retiring as a lieutenant. But for the past 25 years, he’s been focused on RV-ing and fixing up classic cars. He and his wife, Susan, have lived at the end of a quiet street with no outlet in the Valhalla Heights subdivision for eight years without any trouble, they say.

But Monday, in his basement, Jerry Poole found a naked man with short-cropped hair halfway through his window.

Using a profanity, he warned the man to get out or get shot. That didn’t slow him down, Poole said. So he squeezed the trigger.

Nothing happened.

Then a second time. Then a third.

He’d forgotten to load it.

“I thought, ‘Uh oh,’” Poole said.

The man fell inside the house behind a couch and, as he was standing, Poole brained him with the grip of his revolver.

It took three more strikes to subdue him, Poole said.

“He was high on something,” Susan Poole said. “He was definitely high.”

Bend Police arrived and arrested Shelton Brian White, 45, on suspicion of first-degree burglary, fourth-degree assault and second-degree criminal mischief. Paramedics treated some of his injuries at the scene and transported him St. Charles Bend for further care.

From Prineville, Oregon;

Marla Howard says it was her house. She recounted the ordeal at Saturday’s pro-Second Amendment rally in Redmond, telling the crowd she wished she’d had a firearm. “My dogs, who are rescue dogs, alerted me very well; I’ve never heard anything out of their mouths, the way they growled. The perpetrator broke through my front door, violently. He ran into my daughter’s room and broke her door, violently.” Howard went on to describe how the man then entered her own bedroom and climbed on top of her, “I had no idea what his intentions were, I just knew that all of a sudden this tough girl wasn’t so tough, no more. I did happen to sleep with my blow dryer that evening. So, in the dark, I aimed my blow dryer at this perpetrator, who thought it was a gun.” She says he then ran off, chased by her dog.

Prineville Police located Hurley outside the house and handcuffed him.

From Laredo, Texas;

Initial reports state that three masked suspects dressed in black entered the 8-liner establishment armed with handguns.

Police said the suspects pistol-whipped two employees in the back of the head. They were not seriously hurt, according to police.

The suspects escaped with money bags containing about $2,000. A lookout was issued for the suspect vehicle. A Border Patrol agent saw the vehicle at Maryland Avenue and Chihuahua Street.

One suspected robber allegedly pointed his weapon at the agent, according to LPD. Police said the agent reacted by firing his service firearm once. It was not clear if the shot fired struck the vehicle.

The suspects managed to get away, police said. No arrests have been made.

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