{"id":86225,"date":"2019-04-12T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86225"},"modified":"2019-04-11T19:44:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T23:44:47","slug":"friday-feel-good-stories-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86225","title":{"rendered":"Friday Feel Good Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Friday Feel Good Shooter <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Utah woman who shot and killed her boyfriend spared jail time<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Annie Knox<\/p>\n

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SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 A medical assistant originally charged with murdering her boyfriend has been spared time behind bars after admitting she killed him in self-defense.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Dawn Payan, 43, “is a survivor. She is not a criminal,” her attorneys argued in court documents. They contend she is a caring mother who fired one shot out of fear in August 2017<\/a>, killing Guy Wells Mecham after he repeatedly threatened violence and shoved her.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors accused Payan of shooting Mecham in the back, in part out of anger, as he left his Duchesne house, but her attorneys said it’s not clear he was leaving. He might have tried to retrieve a gun from his truck and hurt her or her teenage daughter, they argued.<\/p>\n

“She reacted by using a gun that she had bought and kept for just such a moment: defense,” her attorney Scott Williams wrote in court filings ahead of the Monday sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Read the rest of the article here: KSL <\/a><\/p>\n

Police identify man fatally shot after he reportedly attacked a woman<\/h3>\n

By Kelsy Schlotthauer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tulsa police on Wednesday identified a man who was fatally shot by a woman in an apparent act of self-defense about a week ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Ronald Tyrone Davis, 47, died at a hospital April 2 after a woman shot him when he reportedly attacked her near Peoria Mart, 6336 S. Peoria Ave., Homicide Unit Sgt. Brandon Watkins said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The store\u2019s surveillance video showed the woman and a friend walking from the store to an apartment complex nearby when Davis jumped on her back, police said.<\/p>\n

After a struggle, she pulled her gun from her purse and shot him twice in the upper torso, police said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Read the rest of the article here: Tulsa World<\/a><\/p>\n

Police investigating shootings in Salt Lake City, West Jordan<\/h3>\n

By Pat Reavy<\/span><\/p>\n

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SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 A man shot outside a Salt Lake house Wednesday remained hospitalized Thursday and was being guarded by police.<\/p>\n

The incident is one of two shootings that occurred in Salt Lake County Wednesday night. The second was reported in West Jordan.<\/p>\n

Just after 10 p.m., a woman in the 100 West block of Paxton Avenue (1180 South) heard her dog barking and went outside to investigate. She was confronted by at least two men and an altercation ensued, according to Salt Lake police.<\/p>\n

During the confrontation, one of the men in the yard pulled out a handgun. That’s when a man inside the house came outside with his own handgun and shot one of the men in the yard, police said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Read the rest of the article here: KSL<\/a><\/p>\n

Well well, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, looks like Lady’s Night here at TAH with two DOT, and one each inconvenienced or in the wind. A member of the Fairer Sex was positively involved in each one.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Utah woman who shot and killed her boyfriend spared jail time By Annie Knox SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 A medical assistant originally charged with murdering her boyfriend has been spared time behind bars after admitting she killed him in self-defense. Stephanie Dawn Payan, 43, “is a survivor. She is not a criminal,” her attorneys argued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-mqJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}