A brave man in Texas was captured on surveillance video shooting and killing an armed suspect who attempted to rob a Houston taqueria at gunpoint.
The Houston Police Department is now seeking the public’s help to identify the man at Ranchito #4 Taqueria in Southwest Houston. The armed suspect entered the store and demanded the customers hand him valuables at gunpoint.
In their Friday press release, the Houston police announced that no charges have been filed against the brave man who took down the armed suspect but they were looking to speak with him about “his role in the shooting.”
The suspect in question looked like a man in his 20s, wearing a black ski mask, and entered the store pointing a pistol at patrons. He demanded the customers surrender all their valuables and money to him at gunpoint.
The armed man then stood up as the suspect walked by him, and took a shot at the suspect who was collecting money from other patrons at the outlet.
Police describe the armed man as a White or Hispanic male. He fired at least nine shots at the suspect who dropped to the ground and died as a result of this interaction. Police report that the armed customer kept firing shots at the suspect’s head after he dropped to the ground.
He then collected all the stolen money from the suspect’s body and returned it to the victims and fled the scene before law enforcement arrived.
The police have released a photo of the man’s truck, which is described as a “1970s or ’80s model pickup truck with no bed.”
Houston Police are seeking a robbery victim who shot dead a masked male who used a realistic-looking fake handgun to rob people at the Ranchito Taqueria on Jan. 5. Because the robber was black, some leftist activists say this was an unjustified shooting. https://t.co/G7OROWTtn4 pic.twitter.com/lIykfwbQdc
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) January 7, 2023
A spokesperson for the Houston Police Department told Fox News Digital that the armed customer, who was described as a “person of interest,” has not yet been contacted as of Saturday afternoon.
“The person he shot was in the process of committing robbery and consequently his use of force in defense of himself and innocent third parties is completely justified in Texas,” former Houston police officer, now lawyer, Thomas Nixon told KPRC-TV. “He was reasonably in fear of serious bodily injury or death,”
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