Mother of Houston taqueria robbery suspect killed by customer says son promised to do better

Fox News ^ | 14 January 2023

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

The mother of an armed robbery suspect who was shot and killed by an armed customer in a Houston, Texas, taqueria last week said she spoke to her son hours before the incident, and he promised he would do better, according to reports.

In an interview with Fox station KRIV in Houston, Corine Goodman shared what the last conversation with her son, 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington, was like before he was killed.

"Thursday morning was the last time he called me. He said mom, son to mother, I’m trying to be the best person I can be," Goodman said.

[SaveFerris]

(’I’m trying to be the best person I can be’)

Seems like robbing several people in a restaurant doesn’t fit with that objective. 🤔🤔🤔

[NWFree]

Now he can keep his promise

[cquiggy]

He promised. Then he went right out and contributed to society by saving taxpayers the cost of a trial.
He wut a good boy !

[Fido969]

Based on the truck the shooter was driving, if the family is hoping for a big payday, I don’t think there is any chance of that.

[Valpal1]

One that can’t afford to buy one because he spends all his money on drugs.

[The Sentient Sheep]

Hope the Man defending himself has really good conceal carry insurance....he’s gonna need it.

[blueplum]

he did do better, sort of - he used a fake gun instead of a real one

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/08/texas-vigilante-fatally-shoots-robbery-suspect-taqueria

[DesertRhino]

Well, he wasn’t a complete failure. He can always serve as a bad example.

[drSteve78]

Well, he didn’t.

Au contraire! He did eliminate himself from being a burden on society. Stupid is supposed to hurt. He is now a proud Darwin Award winner; his mother can be so very proud. He didn’t die as part of gang violence, and he was likely fully vaxxed.

[DJ Frisat]

Please tell me that this isn’t a real sign…

[Mark17]

If he was trying to be a better citizen, he failed.

If he was trying to be a better robber, he failed.

Is there anything this dude succeeded at?

[Vigilanteman]

SPJNK

[HamiltonJay]

Relax.

She said he told her he was trying to better.. she didn’t say he was.

Calm down

[Magnum44]

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

No, he did indeed keep his promise to become “good”, it’s just that someone else helped him get goodified at the small cost of having some unnecessary ventilation added to his body.

[drSteve78]

dude succeeded at?

Apparently was real good at dying.

[TigersEye]

I stand corrected. :)

[Herakles]

Another budding genius grasped from the mittes of MIT gone at and early age! The hope for a cure for cancer has been taken away from us!*

[gundog]

He knocked up his wife. So, a fatherless kid will replace jim.

[Nateman]

It was a Photoshop alteration.