Friday morning feel good stories.
From Dallas TX
Police are investigating after a homeowner shot and killed one of three armed intruders shortly after midnight. It happened on East Overton Road.
The homeowner told police he was surprised when three armed men attempted a home invasion robbery. He grabbed his own gun, fatally shooting one of them, and the other two fled on foot. The resident wasn’t injured and called police.
Detectives later interviewed him at Jack Evans Headquarters. Based on the interview and physical evidence at the scene to corroborate his account of the event, he was released pending a grand jury referral.
From Suffolk, VA
An argument over Aretha Franklin led to a shooting, witnesses told police in one Virginia town Thursday. Suffolk Police responded to a report of a gunshot victim Thursday morning around 10:45 a.m. in the 300 block of East Washington Street.
CBS affiliate WTKR reports a witness said he heard the two people in the argument were fighting over whether or not Halle Berry played Aretha Franklin in a movie.
Police said the fight turned physical and then one of the subjects produced a firearm, shooting the other man at least once. Both men got emergency medical assessment and treatment by Suffolk Fire & Rescue personnel before being transported to local hospitals for further treatment. Police said the gunshot victim is considered to be in serious condition.
Franklin had previously wanted Berry to play her in an upcoming biopic, but Berry claimed she couldn’t sing and wouldn’t do the role justice, according to E News. Instead, Jennifer Hudson was tapped to play the Queen of Soul in the film.
The investigation is ongoing and the roadway in the immediate area is also closed.
From Portland, OR
Portland police say they have arrested a man who allegedly broke into a woman’s home and exposed himself to her while high on methamphetamine.
Marques Seville Hardges, 43, followed the woman into an elevator at her northeast Portland apartment on July 31 and told her he had “just shot up crystal meth,” court documents state. The man exited the elevator on the same floor as the woman and, when she opened her door, ran up and pushed her inside. The woman told police the man “wildly looked around” her apartment, grabbed a pill bottle and $60 cash and then exposed himself to her.
According to court documents, the woman then pulled out a concealed handgun from her purse.
“The gun wasn’t the first thing that came to my mind…it was how am I going to get out of here,” Kim, who declined to share her last name, said. “I was in a sheer panic, I was just in a panic.” The man dropped the bottle and ran out of the apartment with the $60 cash.
“He saw it and ran,” Kim said.
Two North Carolina children got ahold of a gun and fatally shot a man police said was assaulting and strangling their mother. During the attack, Steven Kelley, 46, said he was going to cut the throat of Chandra Nierman, his girlfriend, and kill everyone in the home, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said.
Police said Nierman’s 12-year-old son obtained a gun, and her 15-year-old daughter used it to shoot Kelley in the chest twice. Nierman’s 16-year-old daughter was injured in the shooting after a bullet grazed her leg. She’s since been released from the hospital, according to police. Nierman also “suffered significant bruises and contusions from the assault,” police said.
Police were called to the home just after midnight on August 8 and found Kelley already dead. Kelley was a convicted felon who had two active domestic violence protection orders against him from women in Indiana and Ohio, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said. He also assaulted Nierman just days before his death, police said. Then, investigators said, he fired a gun inside the house multiple times “to threaten and terrorize Nierman.”
Police said they found multiple guns in the house and on Kelley’s body that belonged to him.
Authorities have said that no charges will be filed against the children as the shooting is considered “justified.”
Category: Feel Good Stories
Exposed his small target. Too bad Kim didn’t shoot. Aim small, miss small.
Oh, and it’s Portland. Now it makes more sense.
“An argument over Aretha Franklin led to a shooting”
Somehow there is a lack of respect here but I’ma just going to let it be.
They had the argument and the shooting to honor her memory! 😉 Haley Berry to play her? that’s like having the hilldabeast play wonder woman lol
I can think of any number of issues to argue about, and even some issues in which gunplay might be needed.
Who played Aretha Franklin in a move, however, is not one of them.
“movie,” of course, not “move.”
Boy, do we need an edit feature!
Marques Seville Hardges, who went FRPR* (H/T to API) while probably providing some of that low shoulder, shimmy-shammy moob action while “flashing the goods”, receives a 40×8=320 score from the Whiz Wheel™®.
*Full Retard Past Rutabaga
*low shoulder, shimmy-shammy moob action*
Your brain worm for the day.
You’re Welcome.
Claw, that is just MEAN!!! Good job.
The Kids in the Hall (NC) showed a great deal of good sense as well as cool heads. Winners, indeed.
The guy in Portland? I agree, the lady should have shot him in the nuts. How did he “flee” with his pants down?
I want a Doberman, preferably the red or blue coat (not approved colors). Oversized lap doga, never met one that didn’t want to sit in my lap.
Me too PH! Doberman dogs are the 2nd smartest under poodles and protective, loyal, fun I love ’em! So what do we have now? a shih tzsu lol…obviously the wifes dog! 😉
Nothing posted about Florida today. been a month this Friday since I went through the Epistaxis Embolization procedure so I’ll just put the PC to sleep and take a nappy poo on the old recliner and rest up a little.
Dallas = 1 DRT & 2 needing new step ins. Good! Suffolk, YGTBSM, Really? Daaayuuum! Better Think Portland. pull concealed weapon, place bugger hook on bang switch and depress same. repeat Rutherford, cubs taking care of Mama, good on them!