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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Tue May 3, 2016, 12:41 PM May 2016

Armed Texas good Samaritan shot dead in front of wife attempting citizen’s arrest of fleeing gunman

DALLAS (Reuters) - A gun owner was fatally shot in a Dallas-area drugstore parking lot on Monday after intervening in a domestic dispute in which a woman was wounded, police said.

The unidentified man who was killed was shopping with his wife at a Walgreens in Arlington, west of Dallas, when they saw a female employee who had been shot in the leg near the store entrance, an Arlington police spokesman told reporters at the scene.

The man went to his vehicle, retrieved his weapon and confronted the man who had shot the woman, Lieutenant Christopher Cook said.

"The suspect was trying to leave in the car. That’s when the good Samaritan pointed his firearm, trying to get the car to stop," Cook said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gun-owner-trying-break-fight-fatally-shot-texas-202723017.html
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Armed Texas good Samaritan shot dead in front of wife attempting citizen’s arrest of fleeing gunman (Original Post) SecularMotion May 2016 OP
He could've claimed self defense? metroins May 2016 #1
When in civilian hands, guns are best used for self-defense... Eleanors38 May 2016 #2
Alleged Texas shooter knocked murder victim's gun from his hands: police Eugene May 2016 #3
A firearm.... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #4
We're not LEO's, nice but fatal try bud... ileus May 2016 #5
While I applaud his attempt to do the right thing, ManiacJoe May 2016 #6
Nothing wrong with being a good witness DashOneBravo May 2016 #7

metroins

(2,550 posts)
1. He could've claimed self defense?
Tue May 3, 2016, 12:47 PM
May 2016

But I read that he knocked the gun out of the deceased hands, then shot him. I wonder if you can claim self defense in the commission of a felony? Likely not.

Seriously, if you pull a gun, you should be shooting it in the next 5 seconds.

Wtf did the deceased think was going to happen? The bad guy was just going to say "OK, you got me"?

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
2. When in civilian hands, guns are best used for self-defense...
Tue May 3, 2016, 12:52 PM
May 2016

It is not wise to use them to stop/arrest an armed person. That is for law enforcement.

Eugene

(62,626 posts)
3. Alleged Texas shooter knocked murder victim's gun from his hands: police
Tue May 3, 2016, 07:20 PM
May 2016

Source: Reuters

World | Tue May 3, 2016 5:52pm EDT

Alleged Texas shooter knocked murder victim's gun from his hands: police

DALLAS | BY LISA MARIA GARZA

An Army private accused of shooting his wife during an argument in a Dallas-area parking lot and killing a man who tried to intervene knocked the man's gun from his hands, police said on Tuesday.

Ricci Bradden, 22, a U.S. Army private stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, has been charged with murder in the Monday killing of Anthony Antell, 35, a gym owner who had served in the U.S. Marine Corps. The incident took place outside a Walgreens drugstore in Arlington, west of Dallas.

Bradden said he knocked Antell's gun from his hand and then shot him, a police report said.

Before that, Bradden is suspected of shooting his wife, 22-year-old Quinisha Johnson, a Walgreens employee, in the store's parking lot. She was struck in the ankle and went inside the store to call for help, the report said.

Antell, a father of three and local CrossFit gym owner, witnessed the shooting and retrieved his hand gun from his vehicle before confronting the suspect.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-shooting-idUSKCN0XU27U

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
6. While I applaud his attempt to do the right thing,
Wed May 4, 2016, 01:16 AM
May 2016

his poor tactics played a big part in him getting shot by the bad guy.

The fight was already over when he wrongly decided to find a gun and intervene where he was not needed.

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