Woman who shot at shoplifters vows to 'never help anybody again' after conviction

ChiTrib ^ | 12/11/2015 | By Tribune wire reports•Contact Reporter

[Responsibility2nd]

Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez thought she was doing the right thing when she pulled out her pistol and fired at a pair of shoplifters as they fled from a Home Depot near Detroit.

She wasn't, at least in the eyes of the law.

On Wednesday, a Michigan judge sentenced Duva-Rodriguez to 18 months of probation and stripped the 46-year-old of her concealed gun permit.

Duva-Rodriguez didn't manage to stop the shoplifters when she rattled off several rounds outside an Auburn Hills Home Depot on Oct. 6, although she did flatten one of their tires.

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Duva-Rodriguez did not contest the charge in court, but she was hardly contrite.

"I tried to help," she told WJBK after her sentencing on Wednesday, before wryly adding: "And I learned my lesson that I will never help anybody again."

[SunTzuWu]

She was wrong (in the laws eyes) to shoot but right in the lesson she learned. No good deed goes unpunished.

[tumblindice]

Get Smart The fleeing felon rule: Even if the criminal is fleeing from a felony, you probably live in a jurisdiction that limits your actions to non-lethal force. And that's if you are a cop. Use lethal force to save Home Depot a few dollars from a case of boosted Liquid Nails, and even if you avoid prison you're probably looking at a costly civil action that might bankrupt you, if you have any lawyers in your town. You carry a gun to protect yourself and others, right? Not to play `Dirty Harry' at the home improvement store. Let the cops handle it.

[Paleo Conservative]

If you’re going to pack heat, you should know the law regarding when it’s legal to point and shoot a concealed weapon.

[backwoods-engineer]

If you're going to carry a gun-- and you should-- GET TRAINED on legal stuff. Learn when to shoot, when not to shoot, what to do at the scene, and what will happen to your mind and body in the aftermath.

Do what we did: join the Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network. Watch the DVDs and read the books that they send you. Ten bucks a month buys a LOT of peace of mind.

[Aleya2Fairlie]

This lady obviously slept through her Concealed Carry class. I wonder how she passed the written test.

[minnesota_bound]

#14 it looks to me that they decided to run her over.

[GingisK]

Shoplifting is not a capital offense.

[Osage Orange]

Ditto that

[Balding_Eagle]

Morally she was correct.

Legally she was wrong.

[GenXteacher]

“Would you be OK if she had killed the shoplifters?”

Affirmative. The recidivism rate of dead criminals is 0%, which represents a tremendous savings of taxpayer money in terms of police and court time, incarceration costs, and a tremendous savings in terms of theft insurance costs. Our current ‘catch and release’ programs are nothing more scams to loot money from the public treasury and place it in the pockets of lawyers, and cause nothing but damage to almost everyone else involved.