An ill-fated armed robbery at a Houston-area Mexican eatery ended badly for the perp who ended up on a morgue slab when he picked the wrong taqueria to take down when his career in crime was brought to an end by a customer who served up an extra spicy treat in the form of a hot lead enchilada.
The action went down on late Thursday night at the Ranchito Taqueria in southwest Houston after the masked perp stormed into the restaurant, began waving a gun around and demanded that the customers give him their money and wallets, it would be his final request.
Unlike Democrat-controlled blue state shitholes where violent thugs have run amok ever since the George Floyd “summer of love” thanks to leftist politicians and criminal-coddling district attorneys all but giving them the keys to their cities, trying to pull similar bullshit in Texas where law-abiding citizens are armed to the teeth and have little tolerance for such foolishness is a major gamble, one that the man who invaded Ranchito Taqueria badly lost when he fucked with an hombre who wasn’t about to tolerate being fucked with.
Surveillance video of the incident shows the robber in the dining area of the establishment at 6873 South Gessner Road stalking the floor as customers cower under and behind tables but two men at a table on his left not only remained cool, but one of them pulled out his own piece and busted a cap into the would-be thief as he unwisely turned his back. The video stops short of showing the actual shooting, sparing squeamish viewers from having to see him laying on the floor in a pool of his own blood after being sent to his great reward.
(Video: YouTube/KHOU)
Making matters worse for the dearly departed, investigators now say that he didn’t even have a real gun.
“The robbery suspect he came into the store and was wearing masks and gloves,” HPD Lt. Wilkens said, according to KHOU. “He had a plastic pistol possibly an aero soft or possibly a little BB pistol.”
Houston Police have released pictures of the customer along with his vehicle who is being sought along as victims/witnesses who left the scene.
(Image: Houston PD)
According to a statement by the Houston PD:
Houston police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a male wanted for questioning in the fatal shooting of a robbery suspect at 6873 South Gessner Road about 11:30 p.m. on Thursday (Jan. 5).
Surveillance photos of the male and his vehicle, a 1970s or ’80s model pickup truck with no bed, are attached to this news release. Investigators want to speak with the man for his role in the shooting. No charges have been filed.
The identity of the deceased male suspect, believed to be in his 20s, is pending verification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.
HPD Homicide Division Sergeants M. Arrington, C. Duncan and Detectives S. Overstreet and L. Lovelace reported:
Officers were dispatched to a shooting call at the restaurant at the above address and observed an unknown black male in all black clothing, a black ski mask, and black gloves had been shot multiple times inside the business. Paramedics pronounced him deceased.
Witnesses told officers the suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a pistol at patrons as he demanded their money. As the suspect collected money from patrons, one of the patrons, described as a white or Hispanic male, produced a gun of his own and shot the suspect multiple times. The shooter collected the stolen money from the suspect and returned the money to other patrons. He and other patrons (victims) then fled the scene.
Investigators are asking the shooter and the victims who left the scene to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 to provide statements regarding the incident.
“I can point you exactly where it is in the law, 9.31 and 9.32 of the penal code,” said Nathan Beedle with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office,” KHOU reported as to whether the shooting was justified. “Beedle says Texas law outlines specific instances pertaining to robbery by threat, or aggravated robbery, where deadly force is presumed justified.”
“Whether someone uses deadly force in the situation, that is presumed to be correct under Texas law,” said Beedle.
