Owner of north Houston convenience store uses deadly force on longtime customer(TX)

abclocal.go.com ^ | 10 February, 2012 | Samica Knight

[marktwain]

Climbing over the bullet proof glass, then advancing on an armed man who is telling you to stop seems rather threatening to me.

[jim_trent]

Yes, but he was just starting to turn his life around.(/s)

[Sopater]

"He didn't have to shoot him like that when he was behind the glass," she said.

Sounds like he was no longer "behind the glass" when the shots were fired. Give Vu a medal and let's move on.

[USS Alaska]

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

[TexasRepublic]

Those darned Amish!

[dfwgator]

Katrina - The Gift that Keeps on Giving.

[wbill]

Yes, but he was just starting to turn his life around.

I heard that he was an honors student, and an aspiring rapper.

[flatfish]

He don’t have mental issues no mo, honey child. He be dead.

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[NEMDF]

Yes, he was even thinking about getting his GED someday.

[chris37]

A bullet well spent.

[submarinerswife]

Why is this goibg to a Grand Jury?

I thought protecting yourself in Texas was legal?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

According to a source close to the investigation, Hall was shot in the arm at another location, but may have died from another medical complication.

The story just glosses over this, but evidently the perp had left the scene of one crime, where he had been shot, to enter the store to commit another crime, where he got shot again?

What else could it mean? Other than that the editor is a functional illiterate?

[Jewbacca]

“Why is this goibg to a Grand Jury?”

Because Houston is run by bigoted black Democrats.

They will do their best to railroad the Asian.

[Ozymandias Ghost]

It's probably a legal procedure to protect the shooter from further prosecution at a later date. I would assume that if the grand jury finds it to be a justifiable homicide then the store owner cannot be criminally prosecuted later.

(Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer or a Texan; just going by what I understand about the law as a CCW holder for over 20 years here in VA.)

[RightOnTheBorder]

Why is this goibg to a Grand Jury?

Two possible scenarios: The shooting is in Houston proper where the prosecutor and jury pool is a bunch a racist blacks OR the shooting is in a suburb of Houston where the prosecutor wants to get the case no-billed which will help protect the store owner from civil action.

[FreedomOfExpression]

Why is this going to a Grand Jury?

Standard procedure. He will be no-billed, as it was obviously justified.

[fella]

“the editor is a functional illiterate?”

And a “top of the line” product of our schools of journalism.

[marktwain]

Why is this going to a Grand Jury? Standard procedure. He will be no-billed, as it was obviously justified.

Exactly correct. Texas has a policy that all homicides go to a grand jury. This is actually a protection for the ordinary citizen, as it puts his case before fellow citizens rather than political prosecutors, and it does so in an expiditious manner, rather than waiting for months or years for a prosecutor to decide to prosecute or not.

From what I have seen, Texas grand juries to a pretty good job.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“goibg”?????

Hey! Goibg is my middle name!