Posted on 09/12/2011 8:06:14 AM PDT by BigpapaBo
A Madison man stopped an attack on a Madison woman by pulling a gun on the alleged attacker Thursday night, Madison police reported.
The man with the gun held the suspect, Lorenzo Brown, 24, of Madison, at gunpoint until police arrived, according to a police news release.
Brown was tentatively charged with battery, disorderly conduct and resisting, following the incident at an apartment on South Park Street that was reported at 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
Madison police said the 41-year-old Madison man who came to the 39-year-old woman's's aid would not be charged for pulling a gun on the suspect. But arriving officers did order the gun-holder to the ground and put handcuffs on him because they didn't know the details of the situation at that time.
Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said the man got involved when he heard screams in a common hallway of the apartment building and went to investigate.
"He saw the suspect standing over the woman, stomping on her head," DeSpain said. "He yelled for the man to stop but his pleas fell on deaf ears."
The man went back to his apartment to get his cell phone so he could call 911, but he couldn't find the phone and grabbed the handgun instead.
"He went back into the hallway and pointed the gun at the suspect, once again ordering him to stop," DeSpain said. "This time, the suspect paid heed."
The woman got up and fled the building, with the gun-holder keeping his weapon on the suspect.
"The suspect initially swore at him but later calmed down," DeSpain said.
The man, feeling the situation had been defused, put the handgun in his pocket as police arrived.
Officers were responding to a report of a weapons offense, with dispatch advising the officers that a man was holding a gun on another man.
"Not knowing the circumstances, both the suspect and man with the gun were ordered to the ground and handcuffed," DeSpain said.
The gun-holder was very cooperative, but the suspect was not, yelling obscenities at officers and allegedly threatening to harm them.
"Once officers understood the situation, the citizen was released," DeSpain said.
The gun-holder was shaken by the incident, but felt if he didn't pull the gun on the suspect, it could have resulted in a bad situation, DeSpain said.
"He was afraid if he didn't do something the woman might end up dead," DeSpain said.
The woman, who was not seriously injured, told police she came to the apartment building to use the suspect's cell phone.
"The suspect claimed he and the woman were going to have a romantic interlude after meeting in a park, but that did not happen, because he said she pulled a knife on him," DeSpain said
Be gentle First real post.
Good job
You did good Bigpapa :)
Great article...well until the end where it said the victim said she went to the apartment building to use the suspects cell phone. Who does that? I think there’s more to the story imo.
In any case, the guy did good! Well done.
“Be gentle First real post.”
There he is, get him!
/ just kidding.
You did good.
I’m always slow out of the gate. But when I get started.... well it could be a deluge.
The armed citizen took a little bit of a risk, as the woman may not have supported his version, but the cops handled this very professionally, and no one was injured.
Kudos to the cops.
lol..hadn’t thought about that.
Outlaw Woman,
I don’t care if she was a prostitute with more to the story or whatever she didn’t deserve to have some moe give her a beat down.
Guy did a good job and now needs to fear reprisals.
Plus his world got a little rocked when the cops jacked him.
That took guts in Madistan, if the hero’s name got out there could be anti-gun marches on his front lawn.
That said, good for him!!!
PING!
For pete’s sake, never even occurred to me that she might be a ‘prostitute’.
What I was thinking is that they are an ‘item’ and was having a screaming quarrel or something and could have sounded worse than it actually was.
Thanks BigpapaBo.
"He went back into the hallway and pointed the gun at the suspect, once again ordering him to stop," DeSpain said. "This time, the suspect, paid heed he peed."
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