Tuesday morning feel good stories.
From OREM, UT
A man who was shot while apparently trespassing in a garage in Orem has died.
Police confirmed around noon the man injured in Monday morning’s shooting died, but they are still working to notify his family so his identity is not being released yet.
Police at the scene said things began shortly before 7 a.m. when a man found someone rummaging through his detached garage at a residence near 400 North and 800 West.
“He walked back into his house, got his handgun, came back out ” Lt. Craig Martinez of Orem Police said of the homeowner. “There was a confrontation between he and the suspect, at which time there was several shots fired—a few of them hitting the suspect in the abdomen.”
No further details about that confrontation were immediately available.
Medics responded and performed CPR on the 49-year-old man before he was taken to a hospital in extremely critical condition, where he later died.
Police said he is from Orem and is not someone they are familiar with from a criminal history standpoint.
“It was like something I’d hear in a movie,” said James Hopkins, who lives nearby. “Things like this can happen anywhere… but it still makes you wonder, makes you nervous, makes you think.”
Martinez said the man is not someone who should have had access to the garage and they are investigating to determine why he was inside the structure.
The homeowner, his wife and children were not injured, but Martinez said the man who pulled the trigger was shaken up by the incident.
“He’s obviously distraught,” Martinez said. “This isn’t an easy thing for anyone to have to go through.”
From CLEVELAND COUNTY, NC
A North Carolina man who booby-trapped his backdoorwith a shotgun shot himself when he opened the door, according to deputies.
WCNC reported that the 68-year-old man seriously injured himself with his own booby trap at about 11:30 a.m. Monday at his Cleveland County home.
“I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” Capt. Jon Wright, with the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office, told the Gaston Gazette.
Authorities say the trap was just one of many that had been rigged around the property, according to WBTV.
Deputies said the man was taken to Atrium Health in Shelby and will likely be flown Charlotte.
Category: Feel Good Stories
1. If you consider setting up booby trap, don’t.
2. If you consider setting up a booby trap, don’t, but if you do anyway, be sure to remember where it/they are.
3. If you consider setting up a booby trap, don’t, but if you do anyway, be sure to remember where it/they are AND don’t point it at yourself. Ya know, like, if you decide to step out to feed the other squirrels.
Gee very accurate reporting, fired several and a few hit, gun range time again. Booby-trapped property, yep I can see that, some of those old timers in those southern states have a tendency to be very protective of their stills. Kinda reminds me of when I got to be down in that area, kid told his old semi-invalid dad about many break-in’s there and to protect himself. Good old shotgun loaded for anything, someone rattling the front door knob, unload shotgun through front door, blows best friend off front porch, DRT. Made one think a lot about ones safety as to taking a walk in the woods.
There’s a reason it’s called a BOOBY trap.
It will be interesting to follow the Orem story (I live about 45 minutes away). The police are STILL trying to determine the deceased’s identity? That’s telling right there.
I think the Orem PD knows who the deceased is, but is having trouble locating and notifying NOK. At least, that’s how I read the excerpt above.
Shooting a trespasser in a detached garage is a problematic shoot.
Different states have different laws. Here in Florida, it is not covered by stand your ground, so there is no presumption of deadly intent by the trespasser. You will have to prove you were in fear for your life. That may be difficult if the trespasser was unarmed.
I believe that booby traps are illegal in all 50 states.
So if it had shot someone else the homeowner would be in big trouble.
Believe it is lumped under entrapment, I remember a similar case in which a homeowner set up a shotgun trap in an empty rental house and wound up in prison when it worked on a burglar.