FL: Protecting his home from intruders: "Four men are accused of holding Jackie Bracey at gunpoint. But Ronald Bracey didn't hesitate to protect his wife. He grabbed his gun, firing eight rounds at the intruders -- hitting one in the shoulder -- and chased them off. Three of the men were caught and arrested."


IL: Guard stops fatal bank robbery: "Earl Coleman was calm as he described in court Thursday a gun battle that unfolded when three masked robbers stormed the Chatham neighborhood bank where he worked as a security guard in May 2007. "As soon as I stepped from behind that partition, they started firing," Coleman said on the witness stand in U.S. District Judge Joan Gottschall's courtroom. Coleman, a veteran of more than a decade at the Illinois Service Federal Savings and Loan at 87th Street and King Drive, testified he dropped to the floor as one robber leaped over a teller counter and brandished a .357 Smith & Wesson. With both hands on his weapon, Coleman said, he fired six shots at the robbers before they fled the bank with only a teller drawer containing $6,875. A teller, Tramaine Gibson, 23, was killed, while Coleman and a customer, Dorothy Sanders, a retired teacher, were wounded."