Posted on 05/30/2025 9:31:25 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque business owner is facing a murder charge after police said he shot a fleeing shoplifter.
According to the Albuquerque Police Department, the owner of Moe’s Smoke Shop shot a shoplifter who was reversing his car away from the store. “A lot of commotion. We went ahead and came to the windows by my work, we looked out, we saw a guy running out, that fled in a white Toyota Camry. Then we saw the owner of the smoke shop also out there,” said an employee at a nearby business who wanted to remain anonymous.
Mohtasem Mahir Thabata, the owner of Moe’s Smoke Shop, is facing a murder charge. According to a police report, officers arrived around 3 p.m. Wednesday to a shopping center near Lomas Blvd. and San Mateo Blvd. When they arrived, they found a burned car and a man, identified as Matthew Sedillo, on the ground with a bullet wound, where he soon after was pronounced dead on scene.
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What did he steal?
Trump, in a speech a few years ago, said emphatically that shoplifters should fully expect to be shot when leaving the store. He emphasized SHOT!!
Because of this attitude, this is why you wait ten minutes for an employee to come unlock a display case so you can buy a $1 wingnut. Thank God, not where I live. (yet)
“Did Moe shoot the thief and then set his car on fire?”
Read the article ...
“Did Moe shoot the thief and then set his car on fire?”
Read the article ...
Put me on the jury and shoplifting will stop.
“His means of supporting his life was threatened.”
He won’t have to worry about that, now.
Poor man clearly desperate attempt to quit smoking which sadly ended in suicide.
Zero sympathy for the dead thief🤷🏼♂️God can sort it out…thief expected victim to use good judgment, while he used bad judgment…sorry, that is FAFO ville 💯💯💯
It was awesome in the 60’s. I know. Quit living in the past. 😂👍
Maybe he believed the shoplifter was backing up in order to have more room to get up to speed and ram into the store and kill him, so he legitimately feared for his safety.
Cops will fear for their safety after deliberately hanging onto a driver’s side door when a detainee starts driving away.
Despite its problems, when this happens pretty much anywhere in latin America, the police look around and assess the situation, and have the bodies hauled away. They may even administer a coup-de-grace to the wounded perp in the less ‘civilized’ areas. Legitimate business owners are not hassled for fighting against crime there.
You will often be convicted of murder if you shoot someone in the back while they are retreating. They are no longer considered an immediate threat under the law.
Heck, if he was black and the victim was white, he could set up a GoFundMe and make a million.
A 9mm slug. Later found in his person.
Not guilty. Don’t steal and you won’t have this problem...
I disagree. Being lenient is what got us to the place we are now.
Stop taking stuff that don’t belong to you and you won’t have this problem...
I say that was a good shooting to me...
I am excusing it. I fully support it. We either take back our streets now or lose them completely.
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