Maybe it was the Noid...
Posted on 10/16/2012 4:48:00 AM PDT by marktwain
Police say an eastern Indiana man has been shot dead while trying to rob a pizzeria.
Richmond police said 30-year-old Freddie McCoy of Richmond was shot by an employee of Mercurio's Pizza about 10 p.m. Saturday.
Capt. Jim Branam tells the Palladium-Item that McCoy died at Reid Hospital after being treated by medical personnel at the scene of the shooting. It's not clear from the report if McCoy had a weapon.
(Excerpt) Read more at local12.com ...
Hey Terry, good shooting. You can skip your range time this weekend.
Maybe it was the Noid...
“A check of Wayne County court records shows McCoy had been convicted here of nine misdemeanor crimes since 2002. Included in the list of convictions are four for public intoxication, two each for battery and disorderly conduct, and one for minor consuming an alcoholic beverage.
McCoy was charged in September 2011 in Miamisburg, Ohio, with violating a protective order and child endangering. He also was arrested in Miami, Fla., on multiple occasions this year for charges including drug possession, trespassing and panhandling.”
McCoy entered the carry-out pizza location wearing a ski mask and gloves and attempted to rob the store.
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The above article states it wasn’t sure if the ‘dearly departed’ had a gun or not.
Seeing as how there were witnesses, and the ‘alleged’ entrepreneur was wearing a ski mask out of season this looks like a ‘good shoot’....Not sure I would dispatch him with abandon UNLESS he became a direct threat to me or the customers...
We should be able to take him out if he is taking your hard earned cash but .......
“GOOT BOY”
trubble maker
Not to mention aspiring rapper who had turned his life around.
Police would not say if McCoy was armed
Sadly disappointing for the police to hold back this information. Maybe to please the
gun grabbers though means of bias towards lawful gun owners since this criminal
was not legally allowed to own a firearm due to his criminal history.
See, criminals don't own guns because it's illegal.
Whatever his reasoning, we are down to 46.999999999%.
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“Branum said there were “seven or eight” employees inside the building at the time of the incident but no customers were present.
Police would not say if McCoy was armed, and no additional details about the robbery attempt were disclosed Monday. Branum did confirm there is surveillance video of the incident.
“We are gathering information, and ultimately, we will have to meet with the prosecutor’s office so they can make a decision on whether or not charges will be filed,” Branum said.
The Richmond law firm of Moore Kemp released a statement on Padgett’s behalf Monday that said, “We have confidence in the investigative process and Mr. Padgett will continue to cooperate with the detectives. Mr. Padgett acted quickly and decisively to protect both his business and his daughter.
“Mr. Padgett and his family are still recovering from this tragedy but are expected to resume business Thursday. Mr. Padgett, his family and employees are grateful for the support they have received in this difficult time. Our thoughts and prayers extend to the family of Mr. McCoy, his friends and loved ones.”...”
It burns that they’re even talking about accusing the pizzeria of doing anything wrong at this juncture. Very smart for him to have lawyered up.
The perp’s name was McCoy.
That Freddie McCoy died, after getting shot, trying to rob a pizzeria?
But was he a real McCoy?
For what it’s worth...
(from the same link I provided above)
Was the shooting legal?
This is part of Indiana Code 35-41-3-2 which deals with the use of force to protect person or property (sections relating to airplane hijacking and incidents involving public servants have been removed). The complete code can be found at:
www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title35/ar41/ch3.html
Sec. 2.
(a) In enacting this section, the general assembly finds and declares that it is the policy of this state to recognize the unique character of a citizen’s home and to ensure that a citizen feels secure in his or her own home against unlawful intrusion by another individual or a public servant. By reaffirming the long standing right of a citizen to protect his or her home against unlawful intrusion, however, the general assembly does not intend to diminish in any way the other robust self defense rights that citizens of this state have always enjoyed.
Accordingly, the general assembly also finds and declares that it is the policy of this state that people have a right to defend themselves and third parties from physical harm and crime. The purpose of this section is to provide the citizens of this state with a lawful means of carrying out this policy.
(c) A person is justified in using reasonable force against any other person to protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person:
(1) is justified in using deadly force; and
(2) does not have a duty to retreat;
if the person reasonably believes that that force is necessary to prevent serious bodily injury to the person or a third person or the commission of a forcible felony. No person in this state shall be placed in legal jeopardy of any kind whatsoever for protecting the person or a third person by reasonable means necessary.
(d) A person:
(1) is justified in using reasonable force, including deadly force, against any other person; and
(2) does not have a duty to retreat;
if the person reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent or terminate the other person’s unlawful entry of or attack on the person’s dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle.
(e) With respect to property other than a dwelling, curtilage, or an occupied motor vehicle, a person is justified in using reasonable force against any other person if the person reasonably believes that the force is necessary to immediately prevent or terminate the other person’s trespass on or criminal interference with property lawfully in the person’s possession, lawfully in possession of a member of the person’s immediate family, or belonging to a person whose property the person has authority to protect. However, a person:
(1) is justified in using deadly force; and
(2) does not have a duty to retreat;
only if that force is justified under subsection (c).
(g) Notwithstanding subsections (c) through (e), a person is not justified in using force if:
(1) the person is committing or is escaping after the commission of a crime;
“Pizza Owner Fatally Shoots Robber”
Never mess with a man’s pizza.
You know - I thought about getting rid of my pizza but then I started thinking about that mustang I owned in my twenties and how I sold it and now wished I hadn’t. Long story short, I kept the pizza.
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