Posted on 01/03/2024 8:47:44 PM PST by grundle
A grand jury in Texas has decided not to charge a man who shot and killed a robber inside a Houston taqueria last year.
A grand jury decided on Wednesday that it will not charge a man who shot and killed 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington, according to a press release from the Harris County District Attorney's Office, after Washington entered the El Ranchito taqueria in January 2023 while flashing what appeared to be a gun and robbing the residents inside in an incident that was captured on video.
The armed customer, described by Houston police as a White or Hispanic male, fired at least nine shots from behind at the suspect who dropped to the ground and died.
Police later determined that the gun was a fake plastic pistol and asked for the public’s help locating the man before the case was eventually sent to a grand jury by Houston's progressive George Soros-backed prosecutor Kim Ogg.
The security video went viral on social media, and activists quickly called for the man, who has not been identified by authorities, to be pursued for criminal charges in what they called an act of vigilantism.
Others argued that the man’s actions were a legitimate form of self-defense and that he had reasonable cause to believe his life was in danger.
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Video of the incident:
Once was enough. He’s dead Jim
The shooting was OK but I was very curious about the shooter and still am.
Reads as to what the leftist scum yahoo would post.
This is a good man.
There shouldn’t have even been a consideration of legal punishment.
We need many more like him.
He is damn lucky. This was in Harris County.
Excellent! Good decision.
Years back in Houston after a local convenience store clerk all us kids loved shot a man the Houston Police showed up. They gave the clerk a fresh box of .45 ammo.
The bad guy had walked into the store and put his pistol on the counter pointed at the clerk (we called him Pops). Pops had a huge double drawer metal cash register. He hit the button to open both drawers then stepped behind them. The .22 pistol was now pointed at the drawers, not Pops. The gunman fired twice but hit the drawers while former Marine Pops pulled out his .45 and shot the bad guy between the eyes and removing a good part of his head.
Back then Houston Police were different:)
Great news. This should happen more often.
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