Thursday morning feel good stories
From Phenix City, Alabama;
A Phenix City store clerk is feeling uneasy after he says he was forced to shoot a robbery suspect who first held him at gunpoint.
The incident happened Monday night at the Lucky Food Store on 10th Avenue near Pine Hill Baptist Church.
“He was injured pretty badly. He got shot three times,” said the store clerk, who does not want to be identified. “He put a pistol to my back and asked for the money. I gave him the money. He wanted money out of the next register which I told him I could not open.”
The clerk said he was busy stocking the cooler when the robber came in just before 11 p.m.
“He made me get down on the floor on my knees and he put a pistol to my head,” the clerk said. He turned around to grab some cigarettes and that’s when I seen the chance to actually grab my pistol and I shot him.”
The clerks said he feared for his life and he shot the suspect three times in the abdomen with a 45-caliber handgun.
“I pray that he makes it and that he’s ok,” the clerk said.
The convenience store is a popular place along 10th Avenue but the clerk said he did not recognize the robber.
After the terrifying ordeal, the clerk said he and his supervisor stayed with the suspect and even prayed over him as they waited for help to arrive.
“He told me, please don’t let him die,” mentioned the clerk. “I hate that it happened but at that point, I feared for my life. So, I didn’t know nothing else to do.”
From Quincy, Illinois;
The 19-year-old killed during a reported Memorial Day home invasion in Burton was warned multiple times by the homeowner before he was shot, police reports reveal.
Multiple witnesses told investigators that the homeowner repeatedly issued warnings to Logan M. Graham of Camp Point before opening fire with a 12-gauge shotgun.
The reports were obtained by The Herald-Whig through a Freedom of Information Act request to the Adams County state’s attorney’s office.
The homeowner provided a three-sentence statement to investigators through his attorney, Don Schuering, in which he said Graham entered his home “in a violent, riotous and tumultuous manner by breaking though the glass in my front door.”
“Earlier, he threatened to kill me,” the statement read. “When he entered my home I feared he was going to kill me or one of my family members, I feared that his action was imminent, and I believed there was only one way to protect me and my family.”
Adams County State’s Attorney Gary Farha said last week that no charges would be filed in the May 28 fatal shooting.
Category: Feel Good Stories
I think the second story is from Quincy Illinois. Quincy Massachusetts is in Norfolk County.
Yeah, I had to check that also.
The Massachusetts atty general would never allow the homeowner to go uncharged.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura_Healey
Ah Yes, the RiechsFurher! Yeah, the Norfolk DA would have been on TV whining about “Gun Violence”!
Clearly, there is an advantage to not living in Chicago.
You mean, “ShitCongo”?
Two stories about the aftereffects to the victims of robberies, where the victims are forced to use violence to defend themselves and their family against the violence of the robbers.
It’s difficult to take a life, even in defense of your own life.
I hope those victims have friends, family, and counseling to help them through this difficult time.
Amen.
Wait wait wait, a robbery in Phenix City?
How. Could. It. Be.?
Makes Columbus look like Beverly Hills…
(Actually was there last year, they’ve made great strides to clean up the place, remove blight and fix infrastructure. May the clerk find peace!)
We used to drive over to Phenix City from Columbus on Saturday at midnight when the bars closed. We’d drive over into the Central Time Zone for an extra hour of consuming adult beverages.
When we meet at the Great AA in the sky, I’d like to hear the stories.
Until then, Maker’s with a little ice is hoisted in your memory!