Wednesday morning feel good stories

From San Antonio, Texas;

The homeowner told officers he heard a noise at the house on West Houston Street, near Northwest 20th Street, just before 11 p.m.

He says he grabbed his gun and went to check out the noise when he shot an intruder. The suspect died at the scene.

Police spent the night talking to several other people in the area who might have witnessed something.

As of Tuesday morning, investigators said it did not appear the homeowner would be facing any charges, but the incident remained under investigation.

From Pasadena, Maryland;

Investigators wrote that the man and woman who live in the home were asleep upstairs when their dog began to bark “excessively,” prompting the man to pick up a pocket knife and go downstairs.

The man found an intruder naked in the upstairs hallway while wielding a large kitchen knife taken from the home, police wrote, and the two proceeded to fight one another with their knives.

Both were badly hurt, police wrote, with the resident suffering large cuts to the left side of his neck and “chest/abdomen area.”
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The woman tried to assist the man during the fight and suffered a defensive wound to her left palm, police wrote.

When police arrived, the man told officers that the intruder ran downstairs and out of the house.

The couple was taken to local hospitals to be treated for their injuries.

After police began searching for the intruder with K-9 and helicopter support, according to charging documents, investigators found several homes in the area of Pasadena Yacht Yard Road with “blood marks” on the backdoors, indicating he may have tried to break into them.

Officers said they found Koletty naked and badly injured in a wooded area nearby, behind a home on Jackpine Drive, after receiving a call from a resident, police wrote.

Investigators said Koletty had lost a large amount of blood from the fight, and a booking photo provided by police shows a large laceration on the left side of his neck along with other wounds.

Koletty was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he spent two days being treated for his injuries before being released Friday.

From Fort Worth, Texas;

The intruders pretended to be Nevada Gaming Commission officers when they attacked a housekeeper and entered the family’s house in the Woodhaven neighborhood.

“Right when she gets to the door, they say, ‘You’re under arrest” and just grab her,” homeowner Michael Riccubuono told KXAS-TV (NBC5).

The housekeeper was confronted after returning from the store about 2 p.m. Monday. The intruders told her they had a warrant for her arrest and followed her when she ran inside.

Riccubuono’s wife, who was in the backyard doing yoga, saw the man and woman assaulting her employee and fled.

That’s when Benny and Butch [the family dogs] saved the day, chasing the man and woman out of the house.

“They just … they went into action,” Riccubuono said.

The couple escaped in a maroon car. Police did not release a detailed description of the car or the suspects. A motive remains unclear, but the homeowner believes it was an attempted robbery.

Police suspect the intruders targeted the family because Riccubuono sells slot machines to casinos around the world.

From Durham, North Carolina;

According to police, officers responded to a shooting and attempted robbery at the Guess Road Mini Mart, located at 2014 Guess Road, around 9:30 p.m. Monday. Once on scene, the employee at the store told police that a man had come into the store and brought a beer up to the front counter. Once at the counter, the suspect then went behind the counter, pulled out a gun and said he was robbing the store.

According to the employee, he struggled with the suspect — identified as Kevin White, 38 — and grabbed the gun. The employee said he then fired shots when White moved towards him. The suspect ran out of the store before officers got to the scene.

A few minutes after responding to the call, police found a man matching the suspect’s description lying in front of a house on Hillcrest Street, which police said is just a short distance from the store. The man lying on the ground had been shot int he legs.

White was taken to the hospital for treatment. Once released, he was taken to the Durham County Jail and charged with attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

From Raleigh, North Carolina;

Raleigh police said Monday the young man found dead over the weekend was a robbery suspect.

A news release said that 21-year-old Derrick Malik Wiley was a suspect in a robbery at the Mini Mart on the 5500 block of Old Wake Forest Road.

Wiley and an employee exchanged gunfire Saturday, and Wiley was shot in the leg, police said.

Police found Wiley about two and a half miles from the store.

The owner of the Mini Mart told CBS 17 Monday afternoon that the incident began when someone outside the store saw a man wearing a mask walking inside, so they called 911.

Once inside, the suspect pointed a gun at the store clerk, who handed over about $400 in cash, the store owner said.

The owner says as the suspect ran outside, the clerk followed him out the door and told the suspect that the police were on their way.

That’s when the suspect shot at the clerk, who then shot back, the store owner said.

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