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Mother shoots carjacker in the face after he stole car with kids inside
milive.com ^ | 7/5/18 | Matt Durr

Posted on 07/05/2018 8:46:28 AM PDT by DallasBiff

DALLAS -- A mother of two said she was pumping gas just after 10 p.m. Wednesday night in southern Dallas, when a man jumped in her car and tried to drive away with her two kids inside.

Instead of hesitating, Michelle Booker-Hicks told FOX 4 in Dallas that she did what she had to in order to save her kids.

"I proceeded to jump in my backseat and told the gentleman to stop, to get out the car. He would not get out of the car. He turned around and looked at me. I reached over the armrest to get my glove compartment and that's when I fired at him once I got the gun from my glove compartment," she said.

Booker-Hicks shot the man in the face causing him to drive the car off the road and crash. The suspect was arrested and identified as 36-year-old Ricky Wright. He will likely face charges for kidnapping and the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle or carjacking, according to Fox 4.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2damendment; 2ndamendment; armedcitizen; banglist; carjacking; dallas; dontmesswithtexas; guncontrol; hogg; michellebookerhicks; nra; rickywright; secondamendment; texas
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To: rockrr

Ricky B. Wrong!


41 posted on 07/05/2018 9:19:23 AM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: babble-on
As usual there is no information on the important facts.

What Caliber and loading?

42 posted on 07/05/2018 9:21:06 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Jus Soli + Jus sanguinis = NBC)
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To: lacrew
after a teen neighbor ran up an $800 phone bill (1-900-dirty talk) when my dad was away.

The old neighbor kid story!
Not to worry, your secret is safe.

Have you used the old neighbor kid ran up the cable bill, with a TV remote and watched through the window story?

43 posted on 07/05/2018 9:23:08 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: bigbob
Not the brightest carjack to try to take a car with children inside.

Gun or not, he should have known that mom would go for the throat.

44 posted on 07/05/2018 9:23:17 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: DallasBiff
...The suspect was arrested and identified as 36-year-old Ricky Wright. He will likely face charges....

....likely not? Too bad he lived.


45 posted on 07/05/2018 9:23:51 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: babble-on

“On a tragic note, the carjacker survived.”

Apparently, a shot to the face/head hit a non-vital area, no surprise given his choice of a life of crime rather than productive citizen. In a close-quarters situation, center of mass is even a better target than at a distance, IMO. The proper shot in this case was a couple to the groin giving you a potential femoral artery bleed-out or, worst case, he survives without his junk.


46 posted on 07/05/2018 9:23:59 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: DallasBiff

Two big mistakes:

1) Left keys in the car

2) Left gun in glove compartment, with her not in the car but with kids in car.


47 posted on 07/05/2018 9:24:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Go go Godzilla)
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To: shelterguy

Eyes Without a Face - Billy Idol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFpfTd0EIs


48 posted on 07/05/2018 9:31:02 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!)
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To: 50mm

Like your tagline - is it new? ;)


49 posted on 07/05/2018 9:33:00 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!)
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To: DallasBiff

Hitler Youth Hogg would curl up in a fetal position and cry.

And Ricky Wright will be called Wrecky Wrong AKA Prisoner Number 2349923.


50 posted on 07/05/2018 9:33:17 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DallasBiff

My goodness, should not this brazen hussy have just waited for the police to arrive?? /sarc


51 posted on 07/05/2018 9:36:54 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: katana

Still better looking than Maddow!


52 posted on 07/05/2018 9:38:01 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: Mears

Full serve doesn’t exist around here.


53 posted on 07/05/2018 9:48:21 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: DallasBiff

Double-tap. When one is just not enough...


54 posted on 07/05/2018 9:49:30 AM PDT by donozark (Restraining orders are just another way of saying I love you.)
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To: PapaBear3625
"2) Left gun in glove compartment, with her not in the car but with kids in car"

That was my thought also. Here in Illinois, unless her kids have a CCW, if she leaves them in the car alone with her weapon she's in deep chit.

55 posted on 07/05/2018 9:50:57 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: metmom

I am not disabled,but how is that handled with self-serve?

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56 posted on 07/05/2018 9:56:22 AM PDT by Mears
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To: A_perfect_lady

Prudent. I never leave the keys in the ignition, even when pumping gas.


57 posted on 07/05/2018 10:00:20 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Truth29

His Obamacare will cover those bills.

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58 posted on 07/05/2018 10:02:48 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: riverrunner
It worked but another reason off body carry is not a smart idea.

My gun is always in my pocket holster. That lady was lucky to be able to get her gun out of the glove box. The only time mine is in a glove box is when I go somewhere that weapons are prohibited (hospital, school, etc).

59 posted on 07/05/2018 10:03:57 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: DallasBiff

“He will likely face charges...”

That may prove to be difficult.


60 posted on 07/05/2018 10:04:57 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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