Friday morning feel good stories

From Nashville, Tennessee;

Police say store clerk Zane Friend, 58, was confronted by Gonzales and two other masked suspects at about 11:30 p.m. that evening.

Friend was outside smoking a cigarette when Gonzales, armed with a stolen shotgun out of Clarksville, and other masked men ordered him to get back into the store. That’s when police say Friend pulled out a pistol he was carrying and shot Gonzales in the stomach. The other two suspects fled the scene and dropped a starter pistol on their way.

After Gonzales went down, Friend helped citizens who were rendering aid to the suspect before the ambulance got on scene.

Gonzales was taken to Skyline Medical Center and has since been released. Gonzales is being held on a $36,000 bond.

From St Louis, Missouri;

A former Marine catches a group of thieves in the act, and doesn’t let them get away with it. It happened Monday night in the Benton Park West neighborhood.

Luigi Giovanni said he believes one of the thieves jumped the fence and started examining his bikes.

He said he was playing a video game at the time but noticed some movement outdoors on his surveillance cameras.

“Then I just happened to look up and that’s when I saw two guys coming over the fence,” said Giovanni.

Surveillance cameras show what happened next. Luigi said he grabbed his pistol, ran outside and found one of the thieves standing by the fence.

Luigi said he fired first, but then claims the thief returned fire. The video doesn’t clearly show the thief firing back.

“Right there behind the tree. Right when he was standing by the tree is when he fired. He shot real quick and then I shot back at them and he took off,” Giovanni explains.

The episode didn’t stop there. Later Monday night, Luigi discovered his 8×5 trailer, along with a motorized quad bike, was stolen from his driveway.

“I don’t understand why they picked us, why they picked us to do it,’ said Giovanni.

Luigi said his cameras didn’t clearly pick up the trailer being stolen, but he suspects the same group was behind it.

“The quad runner is not very important to me, it’s the trailer that I really value and cherish,” he said.

Cherished because the trailer was a gift from his dying uncle.

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