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Surveillance VIDEO Shows Attack, Defensive Shooting, in Walmart
Ammoland ^ | 24 July, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 07/28/2019 3:58:24 AM PDT by marktwain

PA: Surveillance VIDEO Shows Attack, Defensive Shooting, in Walmart

On Friday, 5 July 2019, two young women attacked a third woman, Rojanai Alston, in a Walmart store in North Versailles, Pennsylvania.  It was about 9:30 p.m.  A an unknown man accompanying Alston intervened and tried to separate the two women attacking the victim from her.

Rojanai had a concealed carry permit, and a handgun, in her purse. As she is resisting the attackers, she manages to pull the pistol from the purse. The young man dives for cover, and the two attackers flee as she fires five shots. It is all shown in the video below.

Then Rojanai, in the heat of the moment, made what may be a significant legal error. She followed one of the attackers for a short distance. It appears one of the attackers is coming back. She fires two more shots. Those shots have landed her in trouble. They connected with her initial attacker. From pennlive.com:

“She was cold-cocked in the head, not once, not twice, but at least three times, and then they attempted to drag her to the ground. And if she didn't have a firearm on her to disperse her two assailants, I don't know if my client would even be alive right now,” Haber said.

Despite this, Alston was held for trial on a charge of aggravated assault, WTAE reports, adding:

Alston initially fired five shots. But seconds later, when the woman who threw the first punch comes back in Alston’s direction, Alston fired two more times,


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It will go to a jury trial.

I would give odds they will find it justified self defense.

Shows that every bullet comes with a lawyer.

1 posted on 07/28/2019 3:58:24 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain
From what I see here I'd vote "not guilty". A normal,decent,person isn't gonna behave entirely normally or rationally in the seconds (or even minutes) after having been attacked with a firearm.

Regardless of what the letter of the law might say about this particular incident I would give her the benefit of the doubt...unless,perhaps,there's an important point here that I'm missing (which seems possible).

2 posted on 07/28/2019 4:10:23 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A Joke:Lynch,Comey And Brennan Walk Into A Barr...)
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To: marktwain

Rojanai Alston

Women Of Walmart Shooting Appears In Court

3 posted on 07/28/2019 4:30:42 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“A normal,decent,person isn’t gonna behave entirely normally or rationally in the seconds (or even minutes) after having been attacked with a firearm.”

I agreee. She’ll walk.


4 posted on 07/28/2019 4:31:04 AM PDT by semaj (We are the People)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Simple solution. When the other perp resumed the offensive the lady with the firearm yelled, “Stop or I’ll shoot!” Doesn’t really matter if anyone heard her. That is what she said...or that is what she said she said.


5 posted on 07/28/2019 4:34:03 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: marktwain

The thuggery and savagery is common these days and accepted as everyday occurrences


6 posted on 07/28/2019 5:01:01 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: marktwain

Think she needs some work on the range.


7 posted on 07/28/2019 5:28:31 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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Yeah, and situational training.
One-handed shooting in a public venue, shooting after perp departed...
But, if she was hit in the head, she’ll have mental disorientation as a crutch, maybe.


8 posted on 07/28/2019 5:37:34 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: marktwain

Based on what little I know (just this article) I’d be hard pressed to convict her.


9 posted on 07/28/2019 6:02:38 AM PDT by null and void (The Left isn't banning "Hate Speech", they are banning speech they hate. BIG difference.)
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One handed shooting with a purse hanging from your arm. That would make an interesting IPSC course of fire.


10 posted on 07/28/2019 6:24:26 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: marktwain

In a situation like this, with multiple attackers, the victim does not have th point of view of the security camera. She does not know if there are other attackers in every direction. It is disorienting, and she is fighting for her life.


11 posted on 07/28/2019 6:25:02 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the worldÂ’s problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: polymuser

Nothing wrong with one handed shooting. I prefer it. Self-defense is not shooting at a range. At closer distances, why not?


12 posted on 07/28/2019 6:28:26 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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Under10 feet yeah, OK. In a store at ? feet, under duress...I dunno. Glad I wasn’t around.


13 posted on 07/28/2019 6:31:45 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: marktwain

Wow, that was a LOT of yanking and flying fists before that gun came out..!

Yet yeah, the damning part will be how she advanced, firing, after she really got her dander up, which I totally understand.

The most shocking part for me:

The guy she was with seems to instantly recover, back to being unfazed, and begins “cleanup, on aisle 5” literally within seconds of the end of the shooting, the wafts of cordite still wafting around thick, I’m sure.

The level of violence that community is utterly resigned to is astonishing. For many, peace and violence are utterly unlike, one is zero while the other is one.

Yet for these other people it’s all a smooth continuum, and you never really get to full peace.


14 posted on 07/28/2019 7:02:03 AM PDT by gaijin
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Someone lost a weave


15 posted on 07/28/2019 7:12:55 AM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: marktwain

“...Shows that every bullet comes with a lawyer. ...”

Absolutely perfect statement.


16 posted on 07/28/2019 7:21:36 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: polymuser

I regularly practice shooting at 30-45 feet one-handed. Maybe because I grew up shooting SA revolvers? Or maybe it is a variation of point shooting? Makes it easier to shoot around a barrier and easier to move before and after taking a shot.

By the time it becomes ineffective, it may no longer be necessary to shoot defensively.

Not saying anyone else has to do it that way, but if I had a place to go plinking again, I’d go back to practicing shooting with one hand at ranges out to 30-40 yards, at soda cans.

Time and situation permitting, I’d use both hands. And my sights, although my glasses require me to choose between a good view of my sights and a good view of an attacker.

Frankly, I doubt this woman spent much time practicing, ever. Seems to me she did as well as a lot of cops have done. She didn’t shoot anyone else, which is more than a lot of cops have done.

My concern after watching the video is with the question, “Was she in danger of death or serious bodily harm?” Looked like a scuffle to me, not a life-threatening attack.


17 posted on 07/28/2019 7:23:23 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: polymuser

PS: I think most of my likely self-defense scenarios would be at 5 feet or less. I’d rather run than shoot, and if I can’t run, then shooting is likely to be at very close range.

Pepper spray is an underrated option. This woman was having a pepper spray moment, and all she had was a gun. I’d cut her a lot of slack but her life would be better if she had sprayed some of her attackers with pepper instead of bullets.


18 posted on 07/28/2019 7:40:48 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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Every scuffle can be life threatening

Your waffeling is good leftist thought

Your thinking is America’s downfall


19 posted on 07/28/2019 7:44:57 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: marktwain

This seems inside out ... or am I reading it wrong? She is in trouble for the last two shots when her attacker reapproaches??? I thought she was toast for first firing at the fleeing perps. Seems to me that the final shots were the most justified.


20 posted on 07/28/2019 7:51:04 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#Dregs #DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe #BuildIt)
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