I like hearing these stories, so i thought I would share. here is the link....
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Oct 24, 2008 9:18:41 EDT
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Police say an Air Force sergeant shot an intruder at his apartment, then gave the man first aid while waiting for police officers to arrive.
Fayetteville police said Sgt. Jared Johnson came home Thursday afternoon to find two men inside, The Fayetteville Observer reported Friday. Police Sgt. Samuel Oates said Johnson shot one man in the leg.
Neighbor Jamal Triplett said he heard the gunshot and saw Johnson outside tending to the man’s wound while calling 911.
“The guy was just lying on the ground, screaming,” Triplett said.
Oates said the wounded man was identified as Christopher Pittman and was charged with the break-in. Pittman was treated at a hospital for nonlife-threatening injuries.
Oates said a car full of stolen items from a break-in at another apartment complex was left at Johnson’s apartment.
The other man was arrested a few hours later but released after a magistrate ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to hold him.
“He just protected himself,” Triplett said of Johnson. “I’d do the same thing. I’m glad he did it.”
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Ha ha, nice! This is my favorite story like that though:
A burglar in Montgomery chose the wrong family to mess with, literally. Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned home on Tuesday after a week away to find that thieves had emptied almost everything the family of five owned, Tiffany McKinnon said through tears.
“Tears just rolled down my face as I walked in and saw everything gone and piles of trash all over my home,” she said.
Adrian McKinnon sent his wife to see her sister while he inspected the piles left behind. As he walked back into the sunroom, a man walked through the back door straight into him, Tiffany McKinnon told the Montgomery Advertiser in a story Thursday.
“My husband Adrian caught the thief red-handed in our home,” she said. “And what is even crazier, the man even had my husband’s hat sitting right on his head.”
Adrian McKinnon held the suspect, 33-year-old Tajuan Bullock, at gunpoint and told him to sit on the floor until he decided what to do.
“We made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of my drawers and cabinets onto the floor,” Tiffany McKinnon said.
When police arrived, Bullock complained about being forced to clean the home at gunpoint.
“This man had the nerve to raise sand about us making him clean up the mess he made in my house,” she said. “The police officer laughed at him when he complained and said anybody else would have shot him dead.”
Capt. Huey Thornton, a police spokesman, said police arrested Bullock at 2 p.m. Tuesday on burglary and theft charges. He was being held in the Montgomery County Detention Facility on a $30,000 bond.
“The victims were lucky in this case to be able to catch the suspect in the act and hold him until police arrived,” Thornton said.
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