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by JALLEN
Tue Nov 24, 2015 11:36 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher
Replies: 52
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Re: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher

oohrah wrote:
K.Mooneyham wrote:Can anyone properly confirm or deny if the woman had a CHL? I heard she did NOT have one, but I would really like to know for sure.
From today's Waco Trib:"Detectgive Kory Martin said the woman, who does not have a concealed handgun license, met with police later Friday after she learned through media reports that officers wanted to speak to her about the incident."
She had no CHL but presumably could have a loaded weapon in her car. If you have a weapon in the car legally, can you never use it?

She did not have it concealed, after all.
by JALLEN
Tue Nov 24, 2015 9:56 am
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher
Replies: 52
Views: 14012

Re: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher

What would Joe Horn do?

I think her crime, if there was one, was missing. If she had killed him, we could all be gratified in the age old Texan value of our forefathers that if you are doing something you aren't supposed to be doing, and something bad happens to you, it's nobody's problem but yours.

Joe Horn killed two perps and no-billed.
by JALLEN
Sat Nov 21, 2015 5:59 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher
Replies: 52
Views: 14012

Re: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher

Another unknown here is what was said between the various actors. There must have been some talk, between who and about what there is no way to know.

Maybe somebody told her "it's ok, we've got this handled" or similar. She walked away fairly nonchalantly, as the police were arriving. Not exactly flight to avoid them, by appearances.
by JALLEN
Sat Nov 21, 2015 3:18 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher
Replies: 52
Views: 14012

Re: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher

Larz_1 wrote:
JALLEN wrote:Leaving the scene...... Hmmmmm.

You are not to leave the scene of a traffic incident you are involved in, where there is injury or damage, but is there any similar requirement for non traffic events? Nobody was hurt.

I don't know of any legal requirement for someone to remain or give statements, say, after a bank robbery you witness but did not participate in.
Yes, but she WAS an active participant and became so the moment she decided to grab her gun, get out of her vehicle and point that gun at someone.

If the responding officers had noticed her holding the gun when they arrived, I'm pretty sure SHE would have been the focus of their attention.
They just didn't see her.
Had they seen her holding the gun, of course that would have drawn immediate attention and action. Open carry, and that wasn't even "open carry" in a holster, isn't lawful yet. Discharging a firearm in the city is likely no more than a misdemeanor, and wasn't committed in the presence of the officers.

She was neither the robber nor the victim of the robbery which the police were called.

I'm not sure what capacity she was required to remain.
by JALLEN
Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:32 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher
Replies: 52
Views: 14012

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Leaving the scene...... Hmmmmm.

You are not to leave the scene of a traffic incident you are involved in, where there is injury or damage, but is there any similar requirement for non traffic events? Nobody was hurt.

I don't know of any legal requirement for someone to remain or give statements, say, after a bank robbery you witness but did not participate in.

Discharging a firearm in city limits, maybe? No requirement to remain.
by JALLEN
Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:27 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher
Replies: 52
Views: 14012

Re: Waco/Bellmead purse snatcher

BELLMEAD (November 20, 2015) A bystander took a shot at a fleeing purse thief Friday afternoon in the parking lot of the Walmart Supercenter in Bellmead in an incident that a witness recorded on a cellphone.

Witnesses said that a man stole an elderly woman’s purse as she and another woman unloaded groceries from a shopping car and ran with four or five other men in pursuit.

The men caught up with the thief and at one point had him pinned to the ground, witnesses said.

Meanwhile a woman who saw the commotion parked her pickup truck, and got out, carrying a handgun, witnesses said.

She pointed the gun in the direction of the thief, and when he managed to break free and run, she fired a single shot in his direction.

He stumbled when the shot was fired, but wasn’t hit and was recaptured.

The woman who fired the shot got back in her truck and drove off, the witnesses said.
From KWTX10, where story continues.

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