Posted on 08/23/2016 10:47:10 AM PDT by simpson96
EASTPOINTE, Mich. (WJBK) - An elderly shopper pulls out his gun and fires in a Rite-Aid parking lot.
The 91-year-old told police he thought he was about to be robbed by a man who followed him from his car toward the store. That shopper is 91-years old and he says he gave that man a warning -- before he shot him. Now the suspected robber is in custody.
Likely just another morning for the elderly Eastpointe man who stopped by this Rite-Aid store at Gratiot and Nine Mile Monday.
"He was trying to get into the store when he was approached by the suspect," said Deputy Chief Eric Keiser, Eastpointe police.
Eastpointe police say the 91-year-old man felt uneasy as the suspect began acting erratically. That's when police say the elderly man told the 30-year-old suspect -- who pointed some sort of weapon at him -- that he had a license to carry.
"The person who fired the shots had a CPL and was lawfully carrying a handgun," said Keiser. "He said he defended himself when he was attacked."
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Good correction. I am getting careless.
The gun grabbers will ignore this self-defense because the thug was not (apparently) armed with a gun as well. The fact that the legal gun owner was legal and +90yo, is ‘not a pertinent fact’! The truism that the police are minutes away when the attack is only seconds long does come to mind!
A point often made about seniors, is they're not afraid of dying or arrest and will shoot an attacker. So punks should think twice about attacking a senior who may be concealed carrying. If I were the 91-year-old guy, yeah I'm going to shoot the attacker. A few years ago I was sitting on a bench in our local shopping mall while using my iPad, waiting for my wife to come out of a store. I'm always using my peripheral vision and am aware of my surroundings. So out of the corner of my eyes, I spot a young black man with a hoodie covering his head creeping ever closer to me. I figure he's going to attack and steal my iPad. So I slowly pull my knife from my pocket and hold it near my leg and iPad. He gets close enough to see the knife, then does a 180 and exits quickly. This retired guy isn't going down easily!
That's why I started carrying in my 30s. So I'd be ready. Now, ten years have gone.
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