Posted on 05/19/2024 6:24:14 AM PDT by marktwain
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Investigators are working to find out if charges will be filed against a man accused of shooting two customers over a waitress' stolen phone on Saturday.
The Houston Police Department said the incident unfolded at a sports bar along Lyons Avenue and Boyles in the Denver Harbor area.
Just before 2 a.m., a waitress reportedly noticed her phone had been stolen from behind the bar where two men were drinking together.
Police said a manager looked at surveillance video showing one of the two customers at the bar had taken the phone.
That's when the woman decided to call her boyfriend and confront the customer.
"She confronted him and said, 'Hey, please give me my phone back.' He wouldn't do so. He lied and said he didn't take it. At that point, she called her boyfriend, who was close by - he's the individual who did the shooting. He comes over to this location and confronts the two males or the one who supposedly took the phone, and they actually get into a physical tussle," Lt. R. Willkens with HPD said at the scene.
Willkens said the boyfriend grabbed a gun out of his car and started hitting the man who allegedly took the phone.
"The other male comes out of the bar - comes out and tries to help his buddy. They're both fighting the one male with the gun - who is the boyfriend - and he ends up discharging his gun twice, hitting one in the torso and the other one in the torso," Willkens said.
The two customers who were shot are expected to survive, according to police.
Authorities said the shooter and waitress stayed at the scene and cooperated with officers.
Investigators will talk to the district attorney's office to determine if charges will be filed.
This is Denver Harbor, you evidently are not familiar with it. And at 2 am no less. Not far from the ship channel and just over from MCcarty street and Clinton drive. That is one tuff part of town. I used to work around there 40 years ago and was not a place for the timid. Almost everyone carried back then even before it was legal to do so. One thing about it, you might be sittin in a ice house beer joint having a beer and the guy sittin next to you in overalls and muddy boots could be a millionaire. You just never knew who was who.
So it didn’t occur to the waitress or manager to call the HPD and ask for immediate assistance (mention strong-arm robbery in progress, surveillance video of whodunit, perpetrators on scene, “come quick before this escalates”). Take pics of the perpetrators and their vehicles/plates if any. Wait for the cops.
Or be macho and risk the boyfriend’s life over a phone. Either jail or $50,000 in legal expenses coming up for boyfriend. Treating the gunshots will cost the public several hundred thousand dollars.
Already happening.
Hooray for Texas.
That’s what I was thinking. Another chick letting her boyfriend potentially risk his life over something stupid. Hope the boyfriend is fully exonerated but not a lot of high level thinking on the part of the girl and boyfriend.
When confronted with scumbags, let the police deal with it.
My first laugh of the day. Thanks 😊
Do you really believe that Houston PD would drop everything to resolve a stolen cell phone allegation at 2am? Most large city PDs won’t even respond to stolen vehicle reports.
“The waitress calls the boyfriend who is in the bar”
Article never states he was ever in the bar.
If she prosecutes, it will prove that she’s a member of the phone theft ring.
Who said Chivalry is Dead?
Thankfully at least someone with common sense
“ Who said Chivalry is Dead?”
AKA life threatening stupidity over a cell phone
Right it is the victim’s fault, not the fault of the scumbag thief who thinks he has a right to someone else’s things.
If you are old enough then you know how violent Houston bars were in the 50s and 60s, Airline Dr. bars for instance.
Something changed during the 70s and the shootings and stabbings over pool games and women didn’t seem to happen as often with the white men as they had in the rough days.
It’s the responsibility of adult’s to not be so stupid as to risk their life for an easily replaced cell phone for some stupid woman who can’t keep up with it.
If you’re ever in Houston
Well, you better do right
You better not gamble
There, you better not fight, at all
Or the sheriff will grab ya
And the boys will bring you down
The next thing you know, boy
Whoa, you’re prison bound
Do you impulsively grab your fun after people you believe committed something you don’t like such as a property crime? That’s really stupid
Grab your gun act like a barbarian on steroids and become Superman.
Really stupid to do that especially over some phone a dumb woman can’t keep up with
Well, I was sittin’ in this beer joint down in Houston, Texas
Was drinkin’ Colorado Cool-Aid and talkin’ to some Mexicans
An’ we was, what’s that you say?
What’s Colorado Cool-Aid?
Well, it’s a can of Coors brewed from a mountain stream
It’ll set you head on fire an’ make your kidneys scream
Oh, it sure is fine
Yeah, we was havin’ ourselves one of them real good times
But you know every beer joint that you’ve ever been in
Some big, mean drunk who just ain’t got no friend
Sure enough, he wants to fight
Yeah, he’s gonna whip everything in sight
Well, he took him a big cold swallow of beer
And he walked over and spit in my Mexican friends ear
And sure enough that made my buddy real mad
That’s somethin’ like he ain’t never had
Well, Sir, he pulled out a big, long switch blade knife
Quick as a whistle he began to slice
That big mean drunk stood back, his face full of tears
Lookin’ down at the floor, an’ one of his ears
Ha, he cut that thing off even with the sideburns
You might say the little Mexican fella, he just didn’t give a darn
But he was a gentleman about it
An’ bent over and with a half way grin
Picked it up and handed it back to him
He said, “Now big man, you get the urge to spit a little beer
“Just open up your hand there and spit it in your own ear
Won’t be no trouble that way”, that’s what I heard him say
And I said, “Barmaid, set us up a round of that Colorado Cool-Aid
While you’re up there, bring this big fella here, a box of Bandaids”
Now let me tell you if you’re ever ridin’ down in south of Texas
And decide to stop an’ drink some Colorado Cool-Aid
An’ maybe talk to some Mexicans
An’ you get the urge to get a little tough
Better make damn sure you got your knife proof ear-muff
Hey, ain’t that right, big man? I said ain’t that right big man?
Ah, hell he can’t hear, not on this side anyway, he ain’t got no ear
Hey barmaid, bring us all a big, tall glass of that Colorado Cool-Aid
How about it?
How you doin’, big man? Still got your ear there in your hand?
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