Tuesday morning feel good stories

From Bloomfield, New Mexico;

San Juan County deputies were called to a bizarre incident near Bloomfield in late May when a woman told deputies a man she didn’t know was bleeding all over her porch.

“He’s still got the arrow in his arm,” said a dispatcher in the police video.

The man on the woman’s porch turned out to be 38-year-old Eric Tillerson. Deputies and paramedics say he had an arrow lodged in his arm.

“Does that hurt?” said a deputy to Tillerson heard in police video as he moans in pain.

Deputies were trying to figure out what happened, and why someone had shot Tillerson with a bow and arrow.

As Tillerson was rushed to a nearby hospital, deputies tracked his trail of blood back to the scene of the crime. When they found themselves at another house, the homeowner told them Tillerson had been coming by his home throughout the day, making threats.

He then said Tillerson later hopped a fence and shot at a dog. That’s when he pulled out his bow and arrow and shot Tillerson in the arm.

“How much pain are you in?” a detective is heard asking Tillerson during an interview, he replied, “Extreme. It f****** hurts man.”

At the hospital, Tillerson bolted, but deputies found him soon after and eventually sat him down to ask what happened.

“I’m looking for your side of the story,” said a detective.

Tillerson said he did not know why the homeowner shot at him and claimed he was good friends with the person who shot him. But deputies weren’t buying it.

Surveillance video ended up connecting Tillerson to an attempted break-in just days earlier at a Farmington home. One town over, and one arrow through his arm later, deputies said they had their guy.

From Lady Lake, Florida;

The culprit demanded money while pointing a gun at clerks and took an undisclosed amount of cash, deputies said.

During the robbery, the assailant was believed to have been shot by an armed security guard, who fired two shots from his gun, according to officials.

The thief dropped the cash and ran into the parking lot, where a getaway car was waiting, deputies said.

The assailant was described as about 5 feet 7 inches tall and 250 pounds.

From Bayonne, New Jersey;

The two men, later identified as Bayonne residents Jonathan Belle, 35, and Tyrone A. Baskin, 48, approached the victim at a park bench around 11:30 a.m., threw him to the ground and began assaulting him, police said.

They took his wallet and fled the scene, authorities said.

The victim told police he was involved in past incidents involving the two men, although specific circumstances are unclear. Police Lt. Eric Amato could not immediately be reached for clarification.

Baskin, of West 29th Street, has a detailed criminal history. He was arrested last month after being accused of brandishing a starter pistol inside the 7-Eleven on Avenue C, and in the same convenience store four years prior he was arrested for allegedly pulling a knife on a customer for being told he was “backing up the line.”

Later in the day, officers responded to the Gorman Field parking lot near First Street and Humphrey Avenue on reports that four men in a white pickup truck had beaten two men with baseball bats, authorities said.

Upon arrival just before 3 p.m., officers found a silver van belonging to Belle that had crashed into a wooden guard rail. Baskin was in the front passenger seat, unresponsive and bleeding from the head, while Belle was outside the vehicle, police said.

“The assault is believed to be in retaliation for the robbery that had occurred earlier,” Amato said in a release.

Both men were arrested and charged with robbery during the on-scene investigation after police headquarters informed the officers of their involvement in the attack earlier in the day. They were transported to Bayonne Medical Center for their injuries.

Police, meanwhile, broadcasted a bulletin to units to be on the lookout for the pickup truck.

The U.S. State Park Police quickly responded and notified police they had detained the four men at Liberty State Park.

Gary Elam, 31; Elijah R. Porch, 24; Arthur L. Elam, 31; and Albert C. Smith, 33 — all Bayonne residents — were charged with two counts each of aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and endangering an injured victim.

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