The good Samaritan who used his concealed weapon to stop a robbery at a Houston taqueria last January will face no charges for his heroic act after a grand jury cleared him this week.
Video surveillance in Rachito #4 Taqueria shows a robber in a black ski mask pointing what was later identified as a fake gun at customers. As the robber demanded wallets at gunpoint, one unnamed 46-year-old patron in a nearby booth used his concealed handgun to fire nine times into the criminal’s back. He returned the wallets the robber collected before exiting the restaurant.
“In fear of his life and his friend’s life, my client acted to protect everyone in the restaurant,” the self-defense shooter’s lawyer said in a statement. He noted that the incident was “very traumatic” and that the death of the robber would “burden” his client “for the rest of his life.”
Despite his good intention of protecting the restaurant goers, the good Samaritan was smeared by corporate media as a “vigilante” who took a few too many shots in his quest to defend his fellow customers and their property.
Racial activists even tried to hijack the narrative surrounding the incident. But their attempts to assign blame to the story’s gun-toting hero, instead of the convicted criminal who held up the restaurant, clearly failed.
The 12 Harris County residents who sat on the grand jury in this case were not swayed. After days of deliberation, the grand jury determined probable cause to
