Restaurant employee shoots, kills would-be robber in Fla.
A screenshot shows the Captain Max Seafood restaurant where an employee used his own weapon to stop the attempted robbery Wednesday. (Courtesy CBS Miami)
MIRAMAR, Fla. » An employee shot and killed a masked gunman as he attempted to rob a Miramar restaurant.
Miramar police spokeswoman Tania Rues tells media outlets the employee of Captain Max Seafood restaurant used his own weapon to stop the attempted robbery Wednesday.
Rues says the suspect, who was wearing a ski mask and gloves, walked into the restaurant and brandished a gun. After an exchange of words, the employee fired several shots and killed the suspect.
Rues says no one else was injured. She cautioned people against taking matters into their own hands.
No further details have been provided. The investigation is ongoing.
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Thanks for your advice, police spokesperson Tania Rues, but apparently this person didn’t need your words of caution….the dead guy did.
so true.
BACHI. Try rob a place right before Christmas. I guess the robber didn’t expect someone in the restaurant to have his own weapon. I don’t condone this shooting, but…you use a weapon against someone, that person might do the same to YOU.
Yep. Too may innocent people are in jail now. Not worth it.
“The only thing to stop a bad guy with a gun… is a good guy with a gun.” OH NO… you can’t say that. It’s not politically correct. If that had been Hawaii, the employee would have been arrested already for murder. (NOTICE: in Hawaii, if you shoot someone attacking you and your family inside your own home… the HPD will arrest YOU). Yes, it’s true, believe it.
Even the robber has rights in America.
not if he/she is waving a gun around. My right to live honestly bests your right to live if you threaten me with a firearm.
Not the cops fault, it’s the law that needs to be changed.
P.S. Crooks: allegedly did the crime.
Law abiding citizen: did the crime. (prove it was self defense.) Dead men tell no tales!!
Probably will somehow turn into a hate crime as well. Listen up bad guy’s, you do the crime, you may get shot.
Defense will turn the story around.
Very difficult to prove self defense in court.
Yes, don’t take the law into your own hands….instead just be passive and remain a victim. If the Florida robber wants to take you to a back room so he can torture you before killing you, you should let him.
“Miramar police spokeswoman Tania Rues . . . cautioned people against taking matters into their own hands.”
thing is, the police have no duty to protect any individual against harm from another individual.
your protection and the protection of your family is your responsibility.
The Hi-Fi stereo murders occurred in a similar way with an in-store armed robbery. Only in this case, the victims chose NOT to fight back and did whatever they were told. The robbers took full advantage of this and forced customers and employees at gunpoint into a back room. As the victims pleaded for mercy and did not take the law into their own hands, the robbers decided to force everyone to drink Liquid Drano. They then gang raped a female victim repeatedly. So, remember never to take the law into your own hands if you are the victim of a crime. Be as passive and non-threatening as possible.
The big question is how will the shooter cope with the knowledge that a person was slain by my actions? My many guns are stored in a large steel safe withn2 enormous locks. Ammo are stored in a cabinet in the underground parking garage. So far have had no need to carry?