Posted on 10/16/2023 5:06:27 AM PDT by marktwain
On August 14, 2022, Adam Simjee and his longtime girlfriend, Mikayla Paulus, were on a road trip through wild Alabama country before returning to college.
They decided to help a woman who appeared to have had a vehicle breakdown. The woman, Yasmine Hider, was planning to rob them or worse. Adam was a dedicated Second Amendment supporter. He had tucked a concealed pistol in his waistband because he was suspicious of the circumstances. After Adam and Mikayla had been working on the broke-down vehicle for an hour without success, Hider pulled out a handgun and ordered them to drop their cell phones, empty their pockets, and give up their bank and cell phone passwords. Then she marched them into the forest. Adam waited for an opportunity to draw his firearm.
In situations such as this, the assailant is often momentarily distracted. From abc3340.com:
“Adam had his gun on him the whole time because he said, ‘This is how people get robbed,'” she said, “So I was just waiting on him to use it.”
Paulus described what happened next, “Adam pulled out his gun and told her to get on the ground and that’s when she started messing around with her gun. It jammed once but they both shot at each other and she was shot a few times and he was shot only once.”
Law and Crime supply a few more details. From Law and Crime:
At one point, HIDER looked away and lowered her guard, Victim #1 pulled his pistol from his waistband and ordered HIDER to drop her weapon. HIDER said, “Are you serious?” She cocked her gun and started firing, and Victim # 1 returned fire simultaneously while falling to the ground. While on the ground, Victim #1 said, “You shot me,” and fired one last time
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Shoot indeed. A misplaced notion of fair play cost this man his life.
From stories at the time, I got the impression that a gang of ferals was using this desolate State forest area like pirates of old used the Tortugas. I have wondered whether corpses of prior victims would be found in the aftermath of this incident. Victims could have been travelers from far away, thus not on missing persons reports for the local area. Would be curious to know if authorities or anyone else even bothered to search.
Hate to say but I won’t stop for blacks or Mexicans along the road. Hope they have AAA.
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You have common sense.
Perp seemed amazed that the victim would actually shoot. What did she think should happen if he had a concealed weapon. Dumb.
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