'Good Guy With a Gun' Escapes the Claws
of a Soros-Funded Prosecutor
Red State,
by
Streiff
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/4/2024 1:35:33 AM
A Houston, TX, grand jury has elected not to charge a man who shot and killed a career criminal who tried to hold up a Houston taqueria in January 2023.
On January 5, 2023, 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington entered El Ranchito taqueria in southwest Houston, brandishing what turned out to be a toy pistol and demanding the customers give him their money. As Washington goes to leave the shop, one of the customers shoots him nine times. If you are squeamish, don't watch this video. (Video) The customer then left the restaurant. Four days later, the 46-year-old shooter, who remains anonymous, contacted Houston homicide detectives via his attorney.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 1/4/2024 3:26:27 AM (No. 1629239)
The proper outcome, no indictment.
As crime increases, juries interest in "did it wrong" sort of indictments against honest citizens shooting clear career criminals wanes rapidly.
In the 1980s in Miami area, crime was rampant. A friend who lived their sent many newspaper clippings about 'self defense shootings' which were never charged against the good guy in Miami, and yet the same circumstances in low crime eastern Kansas would have gotten the 'good guy' sent to prison for violating the percieved limits on 'self defense'. But in Miami, the prosecutors knew that the people who made up the jury pool were sick and tired of criminals running rampant and if the bare bones were "bad guy dead, good guy alive"....the jury was DONE with the case.
Looks like this Houston grand jury is also sick of violent felons and doesn't much care about the fine details of precisely how the good guy shot the bad guy, either. Works for me.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
5 handicap 1/4/2024 5:23:50 AM (No. 1629254)
The only thing he could have been guilty of was abuse of a corpse, but he wasn't charged with that! :-)
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Re: No. 2; Thanks for the belly laugh I had!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 1/4/2024 7:05:17 AM (No. 1629280)
Good thing he was in Texas. It could be argued that that last shot may have been unnecessary.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FunOne 1/4/2024 7:18:16 AM (No. 1629287)
Feel good story for the day. A nice start inn the morning for those of us who are fed up with these criminals. The last shot was just at exclamation mark.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hazymac 1/4/2024 8:17:27 AM (No. 1629308)
E.E. Washington, the late perpetrator, walked into the Houston taqueria with a gun* out, ordering the patrons to give up their wallets. "Wallet, wallet," the robber kept saying. The defender threw some cash on the floor and waited for Washington to turn his back, then shot him nine times. The first four shots were righteous, the next four were questionable, and the last was Maxwell's Silver Hammer, making sure the robber was dead. It's a good thing that defensive shooting happened in the proper type of state--saved the defender a prison term, for sure. The world is a better place without Eric Eugene Washington around. Not sorry.
*It doesn't matter whether an armed robber is using an air soft pistol or a real firearm. The people he's robbing don't know the difference, and a policeman or a defender, given the opportunity, will immediately shoot him. And probably laugh when they find that his gun was a fake. It did him much good. A defender can't take a chance. In most cases, the perp's gun is real.
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I think both that the grand jury reached the correct decision and that the prosecutor was correct to refer the matter to a grand jury to decide.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 1/4/2024 9:03:35 AM (No. 1629354)
FTA: "In this case, I thought a solid, indestructible self-defense case was available for the first four rounds. The next four were decidedly in the "gray area" of legality. The ninth round, in my opinion, could, in the right lighting, be mistaken for an execution."
That was my impression as well. Bad facts make bad law. He was lucky not to be prosecuted, even in a pro-self defense state such as Texas.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lazyman 1/4/2024 9:08:17 AM (No. 1629359)
They asked him why he shot 9 times. He said that was all I had. I will buy him a beer too he did what he had to do to neutralize the threat.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
FLCracker 1/4/2024 10:47:38 AM (No. 1629452)
#9, citizens are not cops and don't usually have the intensive training professionals get on assessing the situation, the nuances of shoot-to-kill and shoot-to-wound, and having the equipment and/or back-up up to ensure the wounded perp is adequately restrained.
How many times have we watched TV shows/movies where the hero thinks the guy he just shot is dead and he pops back up and almost kills the hero? That isn't real life, of course, but it illustrates the idea that it is good policy to make sure your enemy is really dead.
In my case, combine that with my just-average marksmanship, plus the extremely-heightened adrenaline level I know I would be having, plus the fear, panic, anger, second-guessing, guilt that I would be feeling. I agree with the defender. The bad guy would get "all I had."
As #2 said, maybe "abuse of a corpse."
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 1/4/2024 11:52:51 AM (No. 1629520)
I understand the fine and valid details of #6's point, and in a low crime area where juries will carefully weight the rights of the criminal as if it were something of value.....then this sort of a shooting would likely get the 'good guy' put in prison for excessive force, etc.
Two particular examples from Miami which educated me on the limited patience of juries in high crime areas.
Case A: Good guy parks at the curb, walks his girlfriend down the sidewalk to the door of a home, leaves her at the door, walks back to his car. As he opens his car door, a man exits the house in a sprint, with the girlfriend behind him screaming about "he's robbing me". Good guy reaches into car, pulls out gun and shoots the fleeing robber in the back multiple times. Police called, find perp dead a block away, multiple wounds in the back. In my city, the good guy spends 10-15 years in prison. In Miami in the 1980s, no charges filed, the prosecutor knew it was pointless.
Case B: Legal immigrant from Haiti runs a literal junk store. He finds usable junk in dumpsters, etc and sells it to poor people in a 'bad neighborhood'. Still, thieves keep breaking into his store via the roof. Businessman rigs bare 220VAC electrical wires in the overhead ceiling area as a trap, and fatally electrocutes the next thief. In my city, the businessman goes to prison for 25 years or something. In Miami in the 1980s....no charges filed. From what I could tell juries in Miami at that point just looked at "good guy killed bad guy".....why are we here? Innocent. So, prosecutors gave up wasting time, and crime eventually dropped off, perhaps as lots of bad guys bit the dust.
People have limits of what they will put up with. At that time in Miami, my college prof friend told me he didn't know a single person who had not had their home broken into and robbed. That's a pretty short tempered jury pool, and not in much mood for 'you didn't treat this felon fairly' sort of arguments.
There are legal niceties and sometimes people jettison them in 'hard times'. Not saying that I necessarily support this sort of thing, and I CERTAINLY will not do this sort of thing if it ever comes to it, but just reporting observed behavior of people in high crime times and places.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/4/2024 1:01:09 PM (No. 1629566)
Wasn't the good guy required to first examine the perp's gun to see if it was real or fake before the deadly encounter?
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