Posted on 01/07/2020 10:15:22 AM PST by Red Badger
Updated 2 hours ago Harris County deputies are investigating the death of a man they believe may be tied to another scene just south of Crosby.
According to a tweet from Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, the first scene was a shootout between a gun shop owner and two burglary suspects around 4:30 a.m. at the 2000 block of Kennings Road.
The second scene, Gonzalez said, was along the 3800 block of Morelos Road near Baytown, where a man in his late teens or early 20s was found shot to death.
Deputies continue investigating both scenes.
Ping!............
The one who died!
I happen to be living quite close to Crosby right now. It happens too often.
#1 reason is stupid store owners won’t invest in a safe to store everything in at night. They padlock them with a cable and lug rings in the wall. Easily bypassed with a bolt cutter.
This part of Texas the jewelry stores keep AK47 at hand.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2016/10/04/texas-store-employee-uses-ak-47-stop-4-armed-robbers/
Idiots with a death wish.
Who says nobody is stupid enough to rob a gun store?
I just checked the gaggle maps for that location (2025 Kennings Road). It's a residence. So, the guy may have been a dealer, but it doesn't look like this is your standard "gun shop". He may have been a DBA doing business out of his home and was targeted, or he may have been a random burglary victim who just happens to be a gun dealer. The article did say gun dealer, not gun shop.
Waiting for nanny bloomers and nuzzlin’ joe to comment how wrong it was for there to be firearms in the store.
In Washington, PA, there is a gun store that has thousands of weapons on display.
Every clerk is carrying and there is no way they could move this amount of inventory each night.
I don't know what kind of night security they have, but for the past 30+ years, not a single crook has been dumb enough to try them.
In the day time, almost every customer is either open or concealed carrying and so no bad guy has ever tried his luck.
My daughter lives in Crosby, TX.
I visited her last year and was astounded at the shear number of veterans walking around wearing Navy, Army, Marine Corp and Air Force veteran hats. It may be a small town, but I’d bet 10% of the population has worn the uniform.
The kind that have no compunction against committing cold blooded murder.
There are more than one unsolved murder of gun shop clerks.
Thugs walk in casually, just shoot the staff, then take all they want.
You can talk about “Situational awareness” and such all day, but it’s about impossible to treat EVERY person that comes in as a hostile threat and remain in business.
Nope, it is a real shop, little building, next to a barber shop. Check street view.
I probably got the wrong road, then, What I picked up on Crosby, TX was rural residential. Didn't even have a street view.
Even the large commercial places here have safes. Academy sports and outdoors has large vault safes for night storage. I worked for a hunting mail order and retail company in the 90’s and they locked everything up in safes at night and had 24/7 guard security. That seems insane to me. And I’m unsure on how you know what they do when the doors close. Rarely do I hear of anyplace that is not securing the weapons after close. Most often it is little stores that are doing that.
One idiot tried to rob a gun store in Baton Rouge about 20 years ago. Darwin candidate goes to the counter at the BACK of the store then draws his weapon. He is instantly surrounded with the sound of slides being racked.
they walk among us.
Charles Darwin looks a lot like Terry Bradshaw................
I see it now. Tucked in behind the residence on a side street. Thanks!
If this were Virginia it never would have happened ....
/Sarc
ACE!
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