Posted on 08/18/2014 4:42:28 AM PDT by marktwain
A man and his wife see a neighbor drive up to her house. The neighbor is in her 60's. As they watch, a strange man approaches her, speaks to her, then grabs her, drags her from the SUV, throws her to the ground, and jumps in the vehicle.
The wife opens the passenger side door, but is struck by the vehicle and knocked down. The husband fires several shots from a handgun. A short while later, the vehicle crashes. From azfamily.com:
The responding officers discovered it was the stolen vehicle and that the driver was the suspect. Police say he had suffered a gunshot wound.
He was transported to a local hospital, but later died of his injuries. He has been identified, but the next of kin has not been notified. It will require an autopsy to determine the actual cause of death.
A. A person is justified in threatening or using both physical force and deadly physical force against another if and to the extent the person reasonably believes that physical force or deadly physical force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's commission of...Aggravated assault in Arizona is satisfied by both assault that threatens serious physical injury or use of a deadly weapon (the car).
... aggravated assault under section 13-1204, subsection A, paragraphs 1 and 2.
A story with a happy ending! Great for a Monday morning.
Speaking as a wife: GOOD SHOOTING!
Great story...perp dead and no charges.
God Bless that man!
Works for me. (But not for my state of MA)
I’d call it hot pursuit, temporary insanity, stopping a further crime, etc. Whatever... he needed killin’.
Good story. Horribly written headline.
Doubt there will be any “rioting” in this part of AZ...gun happy zone..
He’s apparently a good shot. Good ending, hopefully.
What are all those markers in the road in the photo?
If each marker is an empty casing,then he must have changed mags at least twice.
If only the carjacker had raised his hands as he drove away.
I like this method of taking criminals off the street.
High speed lead injection, if I had to guess.
Color of criminal not mentioned?
“Whatever... he needed killin’.”.......
Can I hear and “AMEN”?
Exsanguination? Severe organ trauma?
We need one of those funds that you can contribute to by checking a box on your state tax form to compensate people for ammo used to remove felons from the gene pool in self defense.
See, gentlemen? This is what happens when you live in a state like AZ that truly upholds sanity in the use of firearms to prevent crime.
No charges were filed. No charges are EXPECTED to be filed.
And yet, the shooter *could have* “de-escalated”, as y’all recommend. Let the carjacker fly, put his handgun away and tended to the unfortunate victims of the criminal bastard.
Instead, he shot the bastard dead. One less bastard.
Contrary to your effete hand wringing and dopey comments like “I’ll sit on your jury at your DOJ trial”, this is exactly how it would have gone down in Texas.
I pity y’all... contemplate moving from your liberal paradise to a REAL conservative state.
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