Thursday morning feel good stories

From Fort Oglethorpe, Tennessee;

Fort Oglethorpe Police say the story began at the Wash Daze Coin Laundry, at 1868 Old Lafayette Road, shortly before dawn.

The citizen recognized [Shaun] Sisk as the Walgreens robbery suspect from last week, called police, and tried to keep Sisk from getting away.

But police say Sisk did get away. But not before the citizen fired his weapon. A release from the FOPD says, “The confrontation resulted in the citizen firing two shots from their personal firearm at Mr. Sisk, while during the incident the citizen perceived they were endangered by Mr. Sisk’s actions.”

Sisk then drove north, crossing into Tennessee, and crashing his car at that home on Frawley Road.

Other police departments from East Ridge and Chattanooga picked up the investigation there. Officers stayed on the scene for several hours.

Sisk was taken to the hospital, and released with non-life-threatening wounds several hours later. He was then booked on several charges in several jurisdictions.

From Clearlake, California;

Just after 11:50 p.m. Monday Clearlake Police Officers responded to a mobile home unit inside of Southshore Mobile Home Park, located at 5725 Old Highway 53, on a report that an unknown male suspect was banging on the home’s windows, was trying to get inside the home and claiming to own property inside, Joseph said.

While en route to the call, dispatch received updated information that an unnamed adult male resident of the home claimed to have shot at the suspect and that the suspect had since fled the residence on foot, according to Joseph.

Joseph said that the suspect, identified as Montes, walked to a residence in the 5500 block of Cottage Avenue, where he was contacted by police and medical personnel.

Montes, who Joseph said was suffering from a single gunshot wound to his lower abdomen, was transported by ambulance to Adventist Health Clear Lake before he was taken by helicopter to an out-of-county trauma center.

In a late Tuesday night update Joseph said Montes was still hospitalized in stable condition and is expected to survive his injuries.

The resident who shot Montes, whose name is being withheld, was in lawful possession of the firearm which has been seized pursuant to this investigation, Joseph said.

Joseph said physical evidence located and uninvolved witness statements tend to support the resident’s claim that he fired in self defense to protect the lives of he and his wife, who was also at home at the time of the incident.

From Newark, New Jersey;

An attempted robber is in custody after being shot by an off-duty cop in a Newark barber shop, Essex County Prosecutor’s Office officials said Wednesday.

The officer was a customer at a barber shop in the 400 block of Orange Street Tuesday when the incident occurred just after 9 p.m., officials said.

An attempted robbery, armed with a handgun, went into the barber shop when the off-duty cop fired his weapon, according to officials.

The injured attempted robber fled and was pursued by officers responding to the robbery, officials said.

The person was apprehended, and a gun recovered, a “short time later” in the 1100 block of McCarter Highway, more than a mile from the barber shop.

The attempted robbery is being treated for the gunshot wound, which was described as non-life threatening, officials said.

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