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2024-01-04 -Land of the Free

Houston grand jury declines to charge man who shot and killed robber inside taqueria

[FoxNews] A grand jury in Texas has decided not to charge a man who shot and killed a robber inside a Houston taqueria last year.

A grand jury decided on Wednesday that it will not charge a man who shot and killed 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington, according to a press release from the Harris County District Attorney's Office, after Washington entered the El Ranchito taqueria in January 2023 while flashing what appeared to be a gun and robbing the residents inside in an incident that was captured on video.

"Grand jurors ‘no billed’ the shooter," the press release stated.

The armed customer, described by Houston police as a White or Hispanic male, fired at least nine shots from behind at the suspect who dropped to the ground and died.

Police later determined that the gun was a fake plastic pistol and asked for the public’s help locating the man before the case was eventually sent to a grand jury by Houston's progressive George Soros-backed prosecutor Kim Ogg.

The security video went viral on social media, and activists quickly called for the man, who has not been identified by authorities, to be pursued for criminal charges in what they called an act of vigilantism.

Others argued that the man’s actions were a legitimate form of self-defense and that he had reasonable cause to believe his life was in danger.

"As long as the individual, this armed Samaritan, believes that the firearm was real or could have been real, that's what is important, not the actual nature of it," Houston criminal defense attorney Sean Buckley told Fox News Digital last year.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-04 00:07|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 "Don't mess with Texas"?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-04 01:12|| 2024-01-04 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Better to be judged by 12 than buried by 6.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-04 07:27|| 2024-01-04 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 ^not "carried by 6"?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-04 07:37|| 2024-01-04 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 It becomes a matter of 'what would you do?'
Now, as long as the Feds don't decide somebody's civil rights were violated, and the ambulance chaser that the hijacker's family hired gives up (Yes, they did), it's over.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-01-04 09:03|| 2024-01-04 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 I've said many times, even in Harris county (Houston) the prosecutors have to be very careful because juries refuse to punish people for self defense. The last 4-5 shots this guy did are questionable honestly but this is Texas and in Texas, you play stupid games, you win the stupid prize - A Darwin Award. Houston is as blue as you find in Texas and even there you can see the prosecutor wasn't dumb enough to charge the guy, despite being bought and paid for by Soros.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-01-04 10:07|| 2024-01-04 10:07|| Front Page Top

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