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http://www.fox4news.com/story/27798351/police-one-found-dead-in-euless-after-being-shot-in-dallas
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article5679801.html
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/one-killed-two-injured-in-hurst-gunfight.html/
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/crime/2015/01/09/hurst-neighbors-sick-of-crime/21538065/
Here is an interesting take on the story. The Good Sam, Phillip Thomas, saw the robbers/kidnappers park and then one leave on foot. Instead of calling 911, he grabbed a rifle (AR-15) from inside the house and then went back outside where he confronted the returning robber(s details are "sketchy") who had just finished a kidnapping and robbery (he took a hostage and robbed a convenient store). Thomas has been robbed 6 times himself and is apparently hyper vigilant. Thomas verbally queries/challenges the robber(s) and the robber(s) apparently opened fire on Thomas (I assume the robber saw Thomas' rifle). Thomas returned fire and in the process, both suspects were hit and one died later. The gunfight continued as the robbers drove away.
So the actual robbery/kidnapping was over. Thomas probably had no actual insight as to what had occurred (though I am sure he suspected no-good). He confronted multiple bad guys at night and was shot at at first (maybe shot first?).
I gotta like the fact that Thomas is actively vigilant about the security of his area, but I certainly have to question his tactics. He obviously suspected there would be trouble, that trouble was occurring, but failed to call 911 when he had the opportunity. I am not against what he did, but feel strongly that he could have done it better and with less risk to himself. Of course, the most prudent thing to have done is to have called 911 and NOT confronted the bad guys. That would have all but completely negated the risk to himself.
Before anybody says it, no, it was not his "job" to stop the bad guys and having a gun does not make him a cop. Lots of things in our lives aren't our jobs, but we do them because we feel they are necessary or important to do. We all do them - things that are not "our jobs" that we feel need to be done. So whether or not this was Thomas' job isn't really relevant, but how he did it is.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article5679801.html
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/one-killed-two-injured-in-hurst-gunfight.html/
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/crime/2015/01/09/hurst-neighbors-sick-of-crime/21538065/
Here is an interesting take on the story. The Good Sam, Phillip Thomas, saw the robbers/kidnappers park and then one leave on foot. Instead of calling 911, he grabbed a rifle (AR-15) from inside the house and then went back outside where he confronted the returning robber(s details are "sketchy") who had just finished a kidnapping and robbery (he took a hostage and robbed a convenient store). Thomas has been robbed 6 times himself and is apparently hyper vigilant. Thomas verbally queries/challenges the robber(s) and the robber(s) apparently opened fire on Thomas (I assume the robber saw Thomas' rifle). Thomas returned fire and in the process, both suspects were hit and one died later. The gunfight continued as the robbers drove away.
So the actual robbery/kidnapping was over. Thomas probably had no actual insight as to what had occurred (though I am sure he suspected no-good). He confronted multiple bad guys at night and was shot at at first (maybe shot first?).
I gotta like the fact that Thomas is actively vigilant about the security of his area, but I certainly have to question his tactics. He obviously suspected there would be trouble, that trouble was occurring, but failed to call 911 when he had the opportunity. I am not against what he did, but feel strongly that he could have done it better and with less risk to himself. Of course, the most prudent thing to have done is to have called 911 and NOT confronted the bad guys. That would have all but completely negated the risk to himself.
Before anybody says it, no, it was not his "job" to stop the bad guys and having a gun does not make him a cop. Lots of things in our lives aren't our jobs, but we do them because we feel they are necessary or important to do. We all do them - things that are not "our jobs" that we feel need to be done. So whether or not this was Thomas' job isn't really relevant, but how he did it is.