Posted on 02/03/2012 11:33:54 AM PST by marktwain
Despite bleeding from three gunshot wounds, a co-owner of an East Oakland taco truck was able to return fire and twice hit the robbery suspect accused of shooting him early Thursday, police said.
The suspect, Sean Ward Morris, 19, of Oakland, his brother Antoine Ward Morris, 18, and a 17-year-old Antioch boy whose name was not released were detained a short time later when they drove to a hospital and were subsequently arrested.
The 32-year-old taco truck co-owner was in stable condition at a hospital. All are expected to recover from their wounds.
The wild shootout happened about 1:30 a.m. Thursday in a parking lot next to a laundromat at Foothill Boulevard and Fruitvale Avenue where the family-owned taco truck, Tacos El Mazatlan, had been a fixture for years.
Officer Phong Tran said the co-owner was in the parking lot area cleaning up when he was approached by Sean Ward Morris, who was armed with a pistol, and the 17-year-old. Ward Morris told the co-owner "to be cool and give me what you got," police said.
The owner, who had been carrying a gun because of previous robberies, started running away and was shot twice in the back and once in the leg, Tran said.
The owner took cover behind a car, pulled his own pistol and returned fire, hitting the older Ward Morris in the upper body and leg, police said. Police said the owner had a protective vest that was inside the truck but apparently decided not to wear it while doing the lot cleanup.
The two suspects ran to a waiting car driven by the younger Ward Morris and drove off, police said.
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Did he save the tacos?
He was probably planning on using the robbers for the meat.
Make a Run For the Border....
If You Feel Lucky, Punk.
Good for the taco truck guy! He needs a coach gun for his “roach coach” !
Oh, so the driver was a Taco Bell employee, huh?
Nice shooting to hit twice with a pistol, shooting from cover, after being shot three times! I'd buy tacos from that guy if I lived closer and he wasn't insane enough to try to feed people in Oakland. However, there are a couple of critical lessons:
(1) The right protective pistol to buy is the one you will always carry. This would have been uglier without the pistol.
(2) The wrong protective vest is the one you won't wear. In Oakland at 1:30 am, I'd be happy to wear a Level IV with 16 pounds of ballistic steel plates. If he went with 8 mm or 10 mm of III or IIIA and wouldn't wear it because it was too hot, too heavy, or too restrictive, it was a mistake not to go with 4 mm or 5 mm of II or IIA.
The boys were just turning their lives around.
I always preferred El Taco Zamorano down the street at East 14th and High St. After a night of honky-tonkin’ sometimes I’d be in line at 0300, the only white face around. Liquid courage and hunger overcoming good judgment. Of course I haven’t stood in the roach coach line in Oakland in 23 years now...and yes, East Oakland was a cesspool even then...
Well, I know he didn’t have a concealed carry permit(the good guy) so what will happen to him?
In California, hard to say. If he had applied for a CCW, and was refused, he might become the poster boy for a court challenge.
Given that in California, they often do everything they can to keep people from even applying, not too much chance of that.
“Drop the Chalupa!”
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