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Yeah, sure it would have been safer. Maybe. Maybe the guy would have decided to shoot them anyways because he didn't want witnesses. Maybe he was on PCP. Maybe it would have been fun. Maybe maybe maybe but I'm pretty sure most of you guys agree with me that if someone points a gun at me they fully intend to kill me and I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that doesn't happen. A dude's stealing my car, threatening my life and my mother's for a set of wheels, and I'm supposed to TRUST that he's not going to shoot?
My ass. Good for that kid. Seems like that woman raised a brave man.
Jun 19, 10:03 AM EDT
17-year-old shoots carjacker who pulled gun on youth's mother
METAIRIE, La. (AP) -- A man with a gun was trying to force a woman out of her car at a fast-food drive-through when the woman's 17-year-old son wrestled the gun away from him and shot him.
Carl Chestnut, 44, of Kenner, is expected to survive wounds to his head and body, and will face armed robbery charges once he is released from East Jefferson General Hospital, Col. John Fortunato, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman, said Monday.
It would have been safer to hand over the keys and let the gunman drive off, Sheriff Harry Lee said Monday.
Fortunato said the 53-year-old woman was in line at an Arby's Roast Beef Restaurant about 1:30 a.m. Monday when Chestnut walked up and pointed a gun at her, demanding their money and the car.
When he leaned inside, aiming the gun with one hand and trying to yank her out with the other, the 17-year-old grabbed the gun, Fortunato said. He said it went off once as they strugged, but did not hit anyone. Once the youth got the gun, he shot Chestnut several times, Fortunato said.
Sylena Rhodes, a corporate officer for Arby's, said, "He saved his mother's life. He's a hero. He's an absolute hero."
Lee acknowledged that the gamble succeeded, but said it was one that could have cost lives. He repeated advice that the best way to survive a holdup is to cooperate.
"Give them the money and give them the keys. You make an insurance payment on your car, and nobody gets shot," he said.
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Yeah, sure it would have been safer. Maybe. Maybe the guy would have decided to shoot them anyways because he didn't want witnesses. Maybe he was on PCP. Maybe it would have been fun. Maybe maybe maybe but I'm pretty sure most of you guys agree with me that if someone points a gun at me they fully intend to kill me and I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that doesn't happen. A dude's stealing my car, threatening my life and my mother's for a set of wheels, and I'm supposed to TRUST that he's not going to shoot?
My ass. Good for that kid. Seems like that woman raised a brave man.