Soccerdad1995 wrote:There is pretty obviously terrible reporting here. As written, it makes no sense.
LTC holder (LTC) was going through the drive through of his friend's restaurant when he noticed that it was being robbed. Apparently the restaurant employee was not too distracted by the robbery to finish LTC's transaction and give him his food.
LTC then needs to drive across the street to get his gun. Does LTC live across the street? That's the only thing that makes sense for this part.
LTC decides to open fire as the BG's are leaving the restaurant, but does not even bother to get a description of their vehicle. Based on the poor shooting and lack of a description, maybe LTC is nearsighted and left his glasses 4 blocks down the road with his other gun? I'm still struggling with the whole "gun across the street" thing.
That said, it was night time and if the friend had asked LTC to keep an eye on his restaurant, then he might have been justified using deadly force to recover the stolen property (if he could in fact see for sure that the BG's had the stolen property with them). However IMHO, a better course of action would have been to call 911, and get a good description of the BG's and their vehicle. If he felt like being a hero he could have stayed close enough to get a decent cell phone video of the men and their license plate.
A gun is a tool, like a hammer. But just because I have a hammer does not mean that I always need to use it. Sometimes other tools are better suited to the task at hand. Here, LTC had many other tools that would have been much better for this particular job, IMHO. Like his eyes, memory, and a cell phone (I'm making an assumption on that last one).
If he had time to drive across the street retrieve is weapon. He had time to call the leo observe what type of car they were driving and a description of the robbers. At least that is what I would have done.