Posted on 06/05/2013 5:32:41 AM PDT by marktwain
LAWRENCE, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) – A 69-year-old liquor store owner allegedly thwarted an attempted armed robbery of McCann's Liquors on South Union Street Sunday night.
Arturo Taveras, owner of McCann's Liquors, has been robbed before and he was not about to be victimized again.
Taveras told police a masked man walked into his store at about 10:30 p.m., pulled a gun on him, and demanded all his money; however, instead of emptying his register, Taveras removed his gun from his waistband and pointed it at the suspect, reports The Eagle Tribune.
When the suspect saw Taveras' gun, he fled the store heading south on South Union Street and then west on Andover Street.
Police said the male suspect is described as approximately 6'0" tall with an athletic build. At the time of the incident, the suspect was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark blue jeans, and dark shoes.
Taveras also said the suspect spoke English with no noticeable accent.
Taveras was pistol-whipped and tied up with electrical tape during a March 2011 attempted robbery at McCann's Liquors. Two suspects pleaded guilty to attacking and trying to rob Taveras. They are both serving state prison sentences, reports the newspaper.
For more information: The Eagle Tribune
This is Massachusetts,boys and girls.The store owner will get more time than the robber....I guarantee it.
gray hooded sweatshirt
did he have any skittles on him??
I'll take that bet. He didn't fire and had a gun in his face. He had no place to retreat to and was in fear for his life. Because the perp fled immediately probably kept the victim from firing.
Now, if the perp wasn't armed with a firearm...I'd agree with you. The cops would roast him. This case bears watching but my take is that he'll be ok.
Not sure I understand the author's use of the word 'allegedly' here.
About five years ago,we were invited to a cousin's wedding in Lawrence.I asked my uncle,(an Obama apologist from WAY back!) who had worked in Lawrence at Malden Mills for years,if he knew if the church was in a good section of Lawrence.
He answered; "There ARE no good sections of Lawrence!"
That's how bad Lawrence is! Even a liberal gets it!
I've lived here all my life...a rather long life,in fact.Would I be wrong to guess that you've never even *been* to Massachusetts? Just askin'....
Yes. You'd be wrong.
I'm 54. I've lived here for 50 of those 54 years. I have been an Class A LTC holder in MA for a long time. I have examined the laws and have had discussions with local police officers. Things have changed a bit. We have castle doctrine now. We are not required to retreat at all costs. If our lives are in danger in our own homes and businesses, we may respond with deadly force.
After such an incident, we will be detained and possibly charged. But after an investigation, we will likely be cleared. Many cases of this type happen everyday in MA.
It may be a seriously effed up Commonwealth but it ain't New York or New Jersey.
If I'm wrong, I'll say so. Just point to the law that makes that clear.
Massachusetts. That is why he didn’t ventilate the perp.
If I'm wrong, I'll say so. Just point to the law that makes that clear.
And second...and far more important...your belief that *laws* mean a gosh darn thing to Marsha Coakley or any of this great Commonwealth's 13 District Attorneys betrays an unfortunate naivete regarding how things are done here.
Call it naivete if you like. I rather like to call it tenacity.
They've never met me in a court of law. And I have the law on my side. Nay...I shall not go quietly into that dark night.
MGL Part IV, Title II, Chapter 278, Section 8a:
Section 8A. In the prosecution of a person who is an occupant of a dwelling charged with killing or injuring one who was unlawfully in said dwelling, it shall be a defense that the occupant was in his dwelling at the time of the offense and that he acted in the reasonable belief that the person unlawfully in said dwelling was about to inflict great bodily injury or death upon said occupant or upon another person lawfully in said dwelling, and that said occupant used reasonable means to defend himself or such other person lawfully in said dwelling. There shall be no duty on said occupant to retreat from such person unlawfully in said dwelling.
I know of cases in the Commonwealth which would give you the impression that we have DAs who seem to have an agenda...like the man who took a baseball bat to a perp out in the street in front of his house as his tool box was being swiped. But if you look at them carefully, these people did not have their lives in danger.
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