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philip964 wrote:http://gunmemorial.org/2016/05/07/ratawn-bourgeois

A memorial page to the robber shot to death with a gun.

Yes I've run across this site a lot when running down old stories. They never mention that many (most) of those memorialized brought their "gun death" upon themselves.

philip964 wrote:Wish we could know more. BG had the drop on our hero father.

That went from there to BG dead.

Mentions an altercation. Did the GG use the BG's gun to shoot him ( got the gun a little to close to the GG , GG turned it away and got it away)? Or was the BG distracted and it gave the GG time to draw? Very tough choice with a child in the car.

From the link in the OP: "Police said the driver involved is licensed to carry a handgun ..." I think he had his own gun.

All I could find on this was the link I posted a couple posts back, and that link was to a story only a couple days after the event.

You realize this thread started more than a year ago, right? I have been going through some old SD and Crime Blotter threads to see how some of the initial events turned out.

Generally if the perpetrator survived and the event is in Texas, I will find the perp in the care of the TDCJ -- sometimes on death row.

Generally -- in fact, nearly always -- if the defender is a LTC holder, the story ends "the man was questioned and released, and police (or DA) said the matter will be referred to a grand jury." And then I will find nothing more about the LTC holder. I take that to mean that the GJ no-billed him.

Occasionally the LTC holder/defender is identified, but have not run across any yet that were prosecuted, or even arrested, for anything.

Follow-up:

Could find nothing about the defender. Assume grand jury no-billed. The dead robber was identified. Previous non-violent drug offense. http://www.galvnews.com/news/free/artic ... 1b3d1.html

I always unbuckle my seatbelt when I am in the parking lot, drive-through lane, my own driveway, other places where I am stopped and still in the car. This is a habit from living in certain countries overseas, and I retained it for places where the risk and consequence of a collision are low, but the consequence of being tied down is very high.