Parents of Pizza Hut robbery suspect question why employee fatally shot their son in the head

WBTV ^ | Nov 3, 2016 | WBTV Staff

[Islander7]

Police said Grace Jr. and two other people tried to rob a Pizza Hut in the 3200 block of Freedom Drive. During the incident, an employee fired his own handgun and killed Grace Jr.

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“If there was to be a death, it was not the place of the employee at Pizza Hut. That is the place of law enforcement,” said Hairston.

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The parents are angry that their son was shot and killed by an employee. They don’t believe the full story has been released to the public.

“Why in the hell did this guy have a gun?” questioned Hairston about the employee who shot her son.

[Made In The USA]

As self-appointed unofficial judge of this thread I hereby declare you the WINNER.

It was a close call with another referencing a failed culture, but ‘spew their feral offspring’ was the game winning run.

[farming pharmer]

Uh Huh..........Describe your training regiment for that.

A .45, a box of catridges, an outline target, and 1/2 hour of range time every 2 weeks.

[Bon mots]

Sounds like two more head shots are needed to settle this one properly.

[Vigilanteman]

With regular training one can do that very quickly.

And still have three rounds left in the chamber.

But you may need those extra rounds in a panic if the shots go awry.

[Nailbiter]

Most are supporting the shooter and trashing the parents for raising a thug

[Jack Hydrazine]

Would this qualify as an Arkancide?

[Jack Hydrazine]

It was great back in the ‘80s when you’d go to a pizza joint and end up with a cardboard pterodactyl!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWTBlEooFU

[farming pharmer]

The “Mozambique Drill” will be used as evidence of premeditation. Just be cautious.

I don't doubt that some scumbag lawyer would try that.

"But your honor, the police train like that. Don't they know best?"

[Scarpetta]

An act of desperation. There was never a single, solitary crime committed by the black community that was done to “support a child.”

[Salamander]

Versus an impersonal gut shot?

WTF?

Don’t rob stores and you will live.

[Salamander]

Aim small, miss small.

[Salamander]

But wouldn’t that be...overkill?

/I crack me up

;D

[PLMerite]

I, too, only see the one comment. No “show comments” option, but buttons for twitter, facebook, etc.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The most likely answer is that he was trying for a body shot, but missed.

[MrEdd]

During my military years I practiced for the throat, and grouped there very well. I have never seen body armor that would stop even a nearly spent round at extreme range if it hit the throat.

[bert]

Absent DNA test, how do we know the man is the dead guy’s father?

[Pollster1]

If I shoot, even in my own home in the anti-citizen People’s Republic of Maryland, I will shoot to stop the threat. That may be a head shot on a target that is standing still. It may be two in the chest and then one in the head on a moving target that will hopefully be slower when I get to the head shot. But my goal is to stop the threat, nothing more. Certainly nothing more that I would verbalize.

[null and void]

What is this world coming to when you can’t pull an armed robbery without getting shot?

Well put...

[Wonder Warthog]

It would be nice if posters of articles would include the STATE to which the article refers if mention does not occur the article/excerpt. For those of us remote from North Carolina, “WBTV” and “WNCN” or “3200 Block of Freedom Drive” mean precisely nothing.

Perhaps in parentheses in the headline, but certainly SOMEWHERE.

[Gaffer]

I agree for the throat. But I also think that any place where the protectee has to look through isn't ballistically armored either.