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When Seconds Count: Good Samaritan With a Gun Stops Assailant From Beating Elderly Man to Death
Red State ^ | 08/22/2023 | Jeff Charles

Posted on 08/22/2023 5:44:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

It started as an ordinary day at Woody's Smokehouse in Centreville, Texas. Soon, a violent individual brought chaos into the establishment. An elderly man in the restaurant could have lost his life that day. Luckily, a good Samaritan with a gun intervened and prevented what could have been a needless tragedy.

The Leon County Sheriff's Office, on Tuesday, published an announcement detailing a confrontation with Kevin Craig Anderson, who entered the restaurant and began assaulting an elderly man in the restroom. Here's how it went down:

While inside, Kevin Anderson aggressively approached several customers inside the store and then proceeded to walk into the restroom. Subsequent investigation revealed that once inside the restroom, Kevin Anderson began assaulting an elderly male knocking him unconscious onto the tile floor and continued assaulting him.

A Licensed to Carry Holder attempted to intervene the assault on the unconscious victim.The License to Carry Holder was then assaulted by Kevin Anderson, knocking him to the floor and continuing to assault him. At which time the License to Carry Holder fired two rounds, striking Kevin Anderson once in the right arm. Kevin Anderson then fled from the restroom, exited the business and fled the scene in his vehicle.

Kevin Anderson was located parked on the shoulder of IH-45, near the 174 mile-marker.He was transported by helicopter to St. Joseph E.R. in Bryan and then later transported to Hermann Memorial Hospital in Houston to be treated for his injuries. One victim was transported to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he was treated for his injuries.

Diana Wood, co-owner of the restaurant, expressed her gratitude that the situation had a favorable outcome for the victims. 

Prayers for my team and customers that were involved would be greatly appreciated. We are thankful to law enforcement for the fast service and the capture of the attacker,” said Diana Wood. “I’m thankful for the blood of Jesus that I pray daily over our team, our customers, our community, and the team of praying employees that unit with me each day in agreement for protection.

As we are reflecting, we asked ourselves what could have been the outcome if those prayers and cover was not implemented. Praises to God for the covering of everyone. If I ever had something to preach it would be today and it would be now. Cover your family, your friends, your work, and your school with the blood of Jesus before you walk out of your house each day.

Here is yet another story illustrating how important the Second Amendment is to maintaining a free society. A responsible citizen with a firearm is typically the first line of defense if a violent person seeks to victimize innocent people. In situations like this, being armed can make all the difference -- especially when it comes to saving lives.

Those who support laws making it harder for people like the hero of this story to keep and bear arms would have left the elderly victim in a position in which he would have had to wait for law enforcement to arrive. By then, it could have been too late if the other patrons were unable to stop the alleged assailant.

You can read the Leon County Sheriff's Office's press release below:

Leon County Sheriff's O... by KBTX



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KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; secondamendment; selfdefense; texas
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1 posted on 08/22/2023 5:44:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

RE: Luckily, a good Samaritan with a gun intervened and prevented what could have been a needless tragedy.

If it were New York City under DA Alvin Bragg, this good Samaritan would have been charged.


2 posted on 08/22/2023 5:45:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Its Texas, the thug was lucky tye guy didn’t waste him. Lotta desert to bury trouble in.


3 posted on 08/22/2023 5:48:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No pictures and it could be just about anybody because the names are spelled correctly.


4 posted on 08/22/2023 5:48:23 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder why she didn’t thank the good Samaritan? He is the one who stopped the attack.


5 posted on 08/22/2023 5:50:44 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Licensed to Carry Holder Good Samaritan”

I’m shocked to learn that Texas is not a Constitutional Carry state.


6 posted on 08/22/2023 6:04:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Lotta desert to bury trouble in.”

Might have been a challenge to drag the corpse out of the restroom, through the restaurant, past other diners, out to the car and toss it into the trunk.


7 posted on 08/22/2023 6:05:58 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe they didn’t name the good Samaritan to make it more difficult for him to be sued.


8 posted on 08/22/2023 6:06:21 PM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Texans can carry handguns without a license or training starting Sept. 1, after Gov. Greg Abbott signs permitless carry bill into law (2021)

He was probably licensed from before the new law (2021). Also, it doesn't hurt to be licensed even in a CC state, especially if you travel through other states that aren't CC.
9 posted on 08/22/2023 6:17:23 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Bikkuri

Thanks. Those are excellent points.


10 posted on 08/22/2023 6:22:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: Bikkuri

True statement.


11 posted on 08/22/2023 6:22:11 PM PDT by OKSooner (Maybe Quix was right about some stuff. Pronouns=(XY, XYim, XY's))
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>>Lotta desert to…

Right now, it is seasonal.

What to note are cisterns of old homesteads and farms through out the state.

12 posted on 08/22/2023 6:53:03 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Jonty30
 
 
Looked that goblin up the other day - is a 40 year old hoodrat loser out of Houston with a 20 year long rapsheet. Been in trouble for like half his life. He last got released in 2014. Back in the cage he goes for another round on the taxpayer's dime. He's obviously a defective who's never going to rehabilitate and a sure danger to society, which nearly fortuitously came to a permanent end the other day.
 
 

13 posted on 08/22/2023 7:01:42 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/resources/ccw_reciprocity_map/tx-gun-laws/


14 posted on 08/22/2023 7:22:51 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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That Reciprocity site is very good. Thanks.


15 posted on 08/22/2023 7:27:56 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; Carriage Hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; Squantos; ...
US Concealed Carry Map (clickable.pdf)
16 posted on 08/22/2023 7:28:22 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Welcome, pass it around.


17 posted on 08/22/2023 7:29:50 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

SPJNK.


18 posted on 08/22/2023 7:31:21 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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19 posted on 08/22/2023 7:52:34 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (=uran)
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To: Dick Bachert

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20 posted on 08/22/2023 7:54:43 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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