If I was on the jury, I would bill the family for the bullets and award it to the shooter.
I’d vote innocent.
Another excerpt...
“Washington had been convicted in 2015 in connection to the murder of 52-year-old Hamid Waraich, the owner of a Boost Mobile cell phone store, who was fatally shot in the back during a robbery. He was paroled in 2021 after serving six years.
One of the victim’s sons, Sean Waraich, called Washington ‘an evil criminal that took joy from harassing and robbing innocent families.’
He called the taqueria vigilante a ‘true hero,’ and said he ‘did the right thing in stopping the robber and protecting the community from a dangerous perpetrator.’
Aman Waraich, another son of Hamid, said: ‘If the guy who stopped Eric was around 10 years ago, maybe I’d still have my dad.’”
FU DailyMail...
“Eric Eugene Washington, 30, died after being shot nine times - with one bullet hitting him execution-style in the head - by a vigilante customer who was said to be ‘protecting everyone’ in the Texas restaurant.”
What a load of crap. The hero STOPPED a violent armed felon threatening multiple lives.
Cooperating with police and the DA. Big mistake on his part.
In the UK the hero would have been brought up on charges.
I’m going to be surprised if the shooter turns out to have legally had a gun, and isn’t part of the crime world himself.
The guy did the final headshot and then when leaving the food joint threw his coffee cup at the body, and he drives that old beater truck, a guy like that, at his age, is bound to have a little violence in his past.
It will all depend on who the DA hand-picks for the jury. In most Texas cou ties the DAs wouldn’t bother to waste the tax-payer’s money. But Houston/Harris county has long been “Yankee-ized”.
This is actually the normal process in Texas. Felony charges can only be made by a grand jury, not by the DA. That is actually a good thing in a state like Texas. It helps insure that leftist DA can’t charge someone over something like this because he has an agenda. Of course, it is Houston, so you might get a lib grand jury, but I would expect a “no-bill” (decline to charge) from the grand jury unless the guy did something obviously illegal in his actions.
his LAWYER needs to cooperate with the LEOs.
he died doing what he loved.... what a life.
wow... 9 shots, one is bound to hit him in the head... as he falls to the ground. not guilty... could have handled it better, but other’s were in danger, get the drop and drop the perp.
i am a not guilty on that jury... those in the taquiera should all be on the jury.
No bill. The last shot looks like an accidental discharge to the head while recovering the perp’s pistol.
How is that up to a jury? The prosecutor decides whether or not to prosecute, and a grand jury decides whether or not to indict the prosecutor’s defendant.
As for the DailyMail ...
"Robber, 30, who was killed in Houston restaurant by vigilante: ..."
vigilante noun
vig·i·lan·te ˌvi-jə-ˈlan-tē
: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)
broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice
Find a dictionary and use it, Daily Mail.
You're an embarrassment to English speaking peoples around the globe.
I will only give a comment if a Houston Chronicle reporter or other mainstream media reporter will come to my house and talk to me in person.
“Life is the sum of all your choices.” Albert Camus
“Death can also be the sum of all your choices.” Hoosier-Daddy
Expecting the perp's family to hold press conferences with photos of their little darling from kindergarten and tearfully explaining that he was a "good boy" who "didn't deserve" his fate, and that the customer should have just minded his own business as the perp cleaned out all of the customers of their money and possessions.