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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: lhprop1 on July 17, 2012, 02:09:10 PM
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http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120716/ARTICLES/120719707/1109/sports?Title=Video-shows-patron-shooting-robbers-at-Palms-Internet-Cafe
Surveillance ideo at the link
OCALA - The Internet cafe patron who shot and injured two men as they tried to rob the business will likely not face any criminal charges.
“Based on what I have seen and what I know at this time, I don't anticipate filing any charges,” said Bill Gladson of the State Attorney's Office for 5th Judicial Circuit.
Gladson said he has reviewed the security surveillance video from the cafe. While he still awaits final reports from the Marion County Sheriff's Office, he said the shooting appeared justified.
Samuel Williams, 71, who fired the shots, has a concealed weapons permit, according to the Sheriff's Office. Under Florida law, a person is allowed to use deadly force if he or she fears death or serious injury to themselves or others. As long as the person isn't committing a crime and is in a place where he or she has a right to be, they are considered to be acting within the law.
Williams, who lives in Ocala, could not be reached for comment on Monday. But at least one of his 30 fellow patrons at the cafe wants to thank him.
“I think he is wonderful. If he wouldn't have been there, there could have been some innocent people shot,” said Mary Beach.
Beach was sitting in with her back to the door Friday night and didn't realize what was happening until she heard shots.
“I heard pop, pop; then pop, pop, pop, all at once,” she said. “In the confusion I never really got to see his (Williams) face.”
Surveillance video of the incident was released on Monday by the Sheriff's Office. It shows two masked men entering the Palms Internet Cafe, 8444 SW State Road 200 in Ocala, just before 10 p.m. Friday. One of the men had a gun
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Number one thing: At the end of the day, the good guy won........
But many will argue that he was 'lucky' he was in Florida........ some of his shots could be seen as shooting at a fleeing perpetrator, particularly at the end.
My "Monday morning quarter-back, take it with a grain of salt" opinion is that as long as both perps are in the building, anything goes...because they could turn on you in a second and attack. At the end, after they had both went through the door, maybe he should have not taken the last shot.
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But many will argue that he was 'lucky' he was in Florida........ some of his shots could be seen as shooting at a fleeing perpetrator, particularly at the end.
My "Monday morning quarter-back, take it with a grain of salt" opinion is that as long as both perps are in the building, anything goes...because they could turn on you in a second and attack. At the end, after they had both went through the door, maybe he should have not taken the last shot.
I was thinking that, too. Good thing the bad guys weren't wearing hoodies.
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Talk about most people not even knowing there's a robbery going on. How bout the women with her hands over her ears walking into the gun fight. :o Talk about no brains. What a bunch of fool's. :(
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Didn't look like they wanted to stay around too long after the tables were "rotated". I think the last shot out the door was the only questionable one but given the circumstances I probably would have done the same thing or maybe I'd a gone to slide lock when they were tied up going through the door with their hands going everywhere.
+1 for the good guys 8)
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At the end, after they had both went through the door, maybe he should have not taken the last shot.
"And STAY OUT!!!"
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"And STAY OUT!!!"
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