[MPDC66]

This is from Phoenix and kind of baffles you , yet the outcome was good. Lots to be said for drawing AND firing rather than hesitation.





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June 18, 2009
1 robber killed, 1 wounded in home invasion
By Gary Grado
Tribune
One armed robber is dead and another in the hospital after a resident opened fire with a shotgun during a home-invasion robbery late Wednesday in Mesa.

According to Sgt. Ed Wessing, Mesa police spokesman, the two armed men entered the home and demanded money in the 1400 block of south Allen, near Stapley Drive and Southern Avenue, about 11:30 p.m.

The robbers, both 19, rounded up three men and a woman who lived there into one room. The victims ranged in age from 20 to 24.

Wessing said one of the residents had a pistol and aimed it at the robbers, but he didn’t have the nerve to fire.

One of the robbers took the pistol away, but the same resident then grabbed a shotgun and shot each man, killing one.

The second robber fled, and police caught up with him at Banner Desert Medical Center, 1400 S. Dobson Road.

Wessing said police don’t know how the robber got to the hospital.

There is no indication the assailants knew the residents, Wessing said.

“The four victims are true victims,” he said.

 

[MRBARRY]

Wessing said one of the residents had a pistol and aimed it at the robbers, but he didn’t have the nerve to fire.

One of the robbers took the pistol away, but the same resident then grabbed a shotgun and shot each man, killing one.

Talk about a bad then good response!

Fortunately for him the first potentially fatal decision resulted in no victims harmed.

 

[Timbal]

Good for the good outcome, but bad that he hesitated.

When it comes to self defense with a firearm, there can be no hesitations. Once you mentally commit, that's it.

These folks were REALLY lucky the BG's didn't turn that same pistol on them and opened fire. :thumbsdwn

 

[brownie]

Banner medical on Dobson? That's only 6-8 miles from the house west of here on the highway.

Stapely and Southern? Not known as a "hot spot" for crime. Nothern Stapely [ 3 miles away ] is banger territory though. istols

20-24 year olds in the house? Likely not enough experience at living to know that hesitation is for dying.

Brownie

 

[Rvrctyrngr]

20-24 year olds in the house? Likely not enough experience at living to know that hesitation is for dying.

No chit.

 

[YARDDOG]

I'd say he got VERY LUCKY (AT A SECOND CHANCE)