Posted on 06/21/2022 7:35:46 AM PDT by marktwain
A Texas gun owner defended himself and another woman from a teenager who allegedly tried to rob them at gunpoint in Austin, Texas last week, police announced.
Jaylyn Reed, 17, has now been charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Reed was already convicted of a series of robberies in 2021. Police say he was released from juvenile detention on May 27 with an ankle monitor, which he cut it off two days later. Reed then committed a series of nine robberies in five days, police say.
Reed reportedly approached the man and woman shortly after exiting a vehicle, which police say contained three other suspects.
"Surveillance video recorded Reed as he exited the vehicle and approached a black male victim and a black female victim," police wrote. "Reed pulled out a handgun and robbed the male victim of his backpack. At the same time, the other suspects in the car moved forward and waited for Reed. Reed moved toward the getaway car while pointing his handgun at the female victim. The male victim pulled out his firearm and fired several shots at Reed and those in the Chevy Malibu in self-defense."
The male victim struck Reed in the leg.
Police located Reed and the other three suspects shortly afterward and applied a tourniquet to Reed's leg before he was taken to the hospital. Authorities recovered a number of stolen items at the scene, including handguns.
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Somebody needs some Range Time. Also, anything worth shooting is worth shooting more than once.
Ammo is (relatively) cheap. Life is Dear (Yours, not the Feral Animal’s)
The ratio of killed/wounded in Chicago is surprising to me.
I guess when the “pop a cap in yo’ @ss” they go for the fleshy/fatty part.
Probably more humiliating to go around afterwards with a shot buttocks than being killed outright.
Maybe. You get some street cred for getting capped…
Why doesn’t it say “Texas gun owner allegedly shoots teen during robbery? “Why is the criminal’s action described as “allegedly” and the gun owner’s action described as fact
Society would have been better off if the thug had been shot in the head, but the guy may have been trying to hit him in the torso. Harder to hit a moving target in the dark than a stationary target at the range.
He’s not.
I don’t care if it’s a teen or an octogenarian. Bang.
Too bad this one wasn’t killed. No way he’s going to do anything but be a career criminal and a canker on society’s butt for the rest of his worthless life.
So the perp was allegedly attempting? Journalists eh?
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Is that what you are alleging?
It’s been rumored. Butt that could be mis/dis/mal-information.
He is NOT a singular person in that category.
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