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Man who tried to rob Waffle House with an AK-47 is shot by customer (Texas)
Houston Chronicle ^ | July 13, 2016 | Will Axford

Posted on 07/13/2016 12:02:04 PM PDT by SSS Two

Edited on 07/13/2016 1:23:36 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

A man with an AK-47 who robbed customers at a Waffle House in Texas is on life support after being shot by a customer with a licensed handgun.

According to the DeSoto Police Department, Antione Cooper, 26, entered the restaurant in the 1500 block of North Beckley Avenue at 2:30 a.m. Thursday. Patrons at the Waffle House told police Cooper robbed several customers before leaving the restaurant and entering the parking lot.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2a; ak47; banglist; desoto; rkba; wafflehouse
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To: SSS Two

1 good guy with a gun.

that should shut up the morons.


21 posted on 07/13/2016 12:19:15 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: SSS Two
"Cooper pointed the AK-47 in the customer's direction, prompting the customer to shoot Cooper several times"
Hands up don't shoot...not here _ITCH
22 posted on 07/13/2016 12:19:24 PM PDT by Paul46360
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To: Mr. Mojo

Medical bills..$0 dollars.


23 posted on 07/13/2016 12:20:04 PM PDT by Paul46360
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To: stillfree?
It had the thingy on the part that goes down near the X-Ray part.

Any five-year-old could take that thingy off and make the weapon fully automatic.

24 posted on 07/13/2016 12:20:44 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: NEMDF

Interesting that this has not had more attention by the MSM, considering all of the news out of Dallas recently, calls for gun control, etc. lately
__________________________

Maybe the Customer was black as well?


25 posted on 07/13/2016 12:21:21 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: Haiku Guy

Well in this case the problem was that he followed the perp out to the parking lot. If he’d shot the perp in the act that would have been more defensible. Fortunately the cops were sympathetic to his situation and accepted his claim that he was afraid for his wife’s safety even though she was not present because she was on her way over. Who knows whether there was any truth to it. The cops are just about the only authorities who you can count on to act reasonably these days. They threw him a lifeline.


26 posted on 07/13/2016 12:21:51 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Mr. Mojo

Unplug him and save society time, trouble, and money.

L


27 posted on 07/13/2016 12:21:55 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Brilliant
Fortunately the cops were sympathetic to his situation and accepted his claim that he was afraid for his wife’s safety

The customer claims the perp pointed his "AK-47" at him -- immediately after the perp had committed a felony. That is direct self-defense ... the wife part of the story is irrelevant.

28 posted on 07/13/2016 12:24:16 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: SSS Two

I wonder if the news site will be fined for displaying the barcode on the patient’s wristband.... HIPAA protected data and clearly readable.... (sorry, in my field of work)


29 posted on 07/13/2016 12:24:27 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: SSS Two
Antione

Don't need to look at a picture to know it's another of zero's sons. Lemme guess, he was a good boy who wouldn't harm a flea and was turning his life around by enrolling in community college and had aspirations of becoming a rap artist.

30 posted on 07/13/2016 12:25:03 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SSS Two

scattered, smothered, covered, and chunked!


31 posted on 07/13/2016 12:26:01 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: SparkyBass
I wonder if the news site will be fined for displaying the barcode on the patient’s wristband

I'm guessing the photos came directly from law enforcement.

32 posted on 07/13/2016 12:26:47 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: Lurker
Oops!


33 posted on 07/13/2016 12:28:57 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: SSS Two

Obama would have preferred that the hero took on the perp with a laptop or a book (but those are harder to get than a handgun, doncha know).


34 posted on 07/13/2016 12:29:35 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: rktman
It was a Glenfield 25 with a big scope on it.


35 posted on 07/13/2016 12:30:01 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: rktman
AK-47? Are the intrepid journos sure? More likely an M-16. No pics of the ass-salt rifle yet?

I agree. Journos need to edumacate themselves about guns so they write about them authoritatively, so ATTENTION "JOURNALISTS". (See images below)

THIS is an AR-15. (Does that scare you? It sure as heck does ME!)

THIS is an AK-47. I suggest to carry these pictures around with you so you can describe these deadly weapons accurately.

36 posted on 07/13/2016 12:31:29 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: Alas Babylon!

What are you talkin’ about? That’s a picture of a MA Deuce quad mount. :>)


37 posted on 07/13/2016 12:31:40 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: SSS Two

Ok. That helps a bit too.


38 posted on 07/13/2016 12:34:13 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: rktman

Tough getting an M16.


39 posted on 07/13/2016 12:37:14 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Brilliant

I agree.


40 posted on 07/13/2016 12:39:22 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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