Texas ‘good guy with a gun’ shoots carjacking victim in head — then runs away

[villager]

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Locked in GD, even though it was news from Rawstory -- guess I should've tried for LBN!

Houston police say that an armed man’s attempt to stop a carjacking went terribly wrong on Saturday night when he shot the vehicle’s owner in the head, then fled the scene.

According to KHOU Channel 11 News, the shooting took place around 11:15 p.m. at a Valero gas station in north Houston.

Police officials say that two men jumped the owner of a Chevrolet pickup truck and absconded with his vehicle.

As the men struggled with the car-owner, a passerby produced a gun and fired multiple shots, missing the thieves but striking the victim in the head.

The shooter quickly gathered up his shell casings from the pavement and fled the scene.

The injured man was rushed to a nearby hospital where he is currently in stable condition.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/texas-good-guy-with-a-gun-shoots-carjacking-victim-in-head-then-runs-away/

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. What we have here is an irresponsible Jack ass with a gun

[-none]

2. There seems to be quite a bit of those.

They show up in the news cycle for a day or two, complete with a numbered body count, only to sink out of sight, to be replaced by another one the next day. This is a continuous 7/365.25 daily news cycle.

[Nitram]

3. Perfect illustration of the fallacy in the NRA's contention that more guns...

...in the hands of more people make society safer. What a crock. If everybody in that Aurora theater had been armed, it would have been a blood bath with dozens of innocent people killed and hundreds wounded.

[Electric Monk]

4. Locking - dupe

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