Friday morning feel good stories.
From Detroit, MI
A homeowner on Detroit’s east side shot in intruder early Thursday, police said.
The shooting took place about 2 a.m. on the 12000 block of Minden, which is south of East McNichols and east of Gunston.
Officer Dan Donakowski said the suspect forced entry through a window, but then heard the victim moving around and tried to hide behind a couch.
But the victim, a 42-year-old man, was armed and fired shots at the suspect, hitting him on his left side.
Medics transported the suspect, a 36-year-old man, to an area hospital, but his condition was not immediately available.
From Garden Grove, CA
A witness said the homeowner is his cousin and they were together when the homeowner saw two suspects coming out of a home located behind his carrying two bags. The resident challenged them with “What are you guys doing in my backyard?”
The intruders denied coming from his backyard. The homeowner, who was armed, pulled a gun out and tried to detain the two men. They, in turn, attacked the homeowner and tried to disarm him.
One of the two suspects was carrying a safe that he refused to drop throughout the scuffle. A shot went off during the fight, which in turn caused that intruder (We’ll call him suspect #1) to try to escape on foot.
Other neighbors tackled him and held him down until police arrived. Responding Officers took that suspect into custody.
The homeowner told investigators that suspect #1 might have been shot, but still managed to get into a black Lincoln Navigator with paper plates. The SUV was then driven away by a third suspect.
The second suspect, who was left behind, was identified as 36-year-old Long Beach resident and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Detectives were working to locate the first suspect and the getaway driver.
Investigators searching the house behind the homeowner’s house found a sliding glass window had been smashed and the house was ransacked.
From Wichita, KS
Police think a man who was fatally shot in northwest Wichita on Wednesday night was trying to rob the person who shot him.
Officers were called to a reported shooting at around 9 p.m. in the 2700 block of North Amidon and found a man in his 20s lying in the street who was pronounced dead at the scene, Sgt. John Bogle said.
The shooting took place at the same time as a robbery attempt in the street, which may have stemmed from a road rage incident, Bogle said. Police think the man who fired the shots was the victim in the robbery attempt, and the man who was killed was the suspect in the robbery.
There doesn’t appear to be any other connection among the people involved, police said.Police think two gunshots were fired in the incident. The person who fired the shots was not injured. Investigators are talking with the person who fired the shots and with someone who was with the man who was killed.
Bogle said this may be a self-defense shooting. The case will be presented to the district attorney’s office, which will make the final decision on whether the case was self-defense or if the shooter will be charged criminally.
Category: Feel Good Stories
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In the 2nd story – what was in the safe that was being stolen??? Was it left behind for the burgled homeowner to recover?
I had a 110 lb safe stolen from my apartment. It only contained some blank CDs with CD cases. They tore off the owners manual with the combination written on it and left it at the scene. This tells me that they never turned the lights on.
These guys are not the brightest
Break in my house and you will be carried out with a sheet over you or in a body bag, which ever the local coroner has on their bus. “Better to be judged by 12….”