MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The family of a suspected thief is lashing out after their son was shot during an armed robbery.
Relatives of Adric White, 18, believe the Good Samaritan who opened fire should have “just left the store.”
FOX10 spoke exclusively with a customer who stepped in to rescue employees held at gunpoint Tuesday, November 12.
The Good Samaritan, who we are not identifying, told FOX10 News he was shopping at the Family Dollar on Stanton road when he noticed a masked gunman leading one of the employees to the front of the store.
“He had the gun to his head. He had him on his knees,” said the man. “I drew my gun on him and I said 'Hey don't move.' At that point he swung around and before he had a chance to aim the gun at me I fired. I didn’t want to shoot him.”
White was transported to USA Medical Center, where he remains in police custody.
A family member who did not want to be identified said White should have never been shot to begin with.
“If his (the customer) life was not in danger, if no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him - what gives him the right to think that it's okay to just shoot someone?” said the relative. “You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.”
FOX10 had interviewed White’s parents but they later called and demanded the video not be aired.
Court records show that White was out on bond for robbing The Original Oyster House at gunpoint a little more than a month before the Family Dollar robbery.
We asked one relative her thoughts about the accusations.
“We don't know. Like I said, we don't know anything. We only know what we've been hearing second hand through the news. I would not like to comment because I don't know,” she said.
Records show the Baldwin County District Attorney's Office has now filed to have White’s original bond revoked.
Relatives said they have not been able to see the teen at USA Medical Center since he remains in police custody.
Meanwhile, Mobile Police have also arrested 19-year-old Tavoris Moss as an accomplice to the Family Dollar robbery.
Police maintain that the Good Samaritan who opened fire was justified and broke no law
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The family of a suspected thief is lashing out after their son was shot during an armed robbery.
Relatives of Adric White, 18, believe the Good Samaritan who opened fire should have “just left the store.”
FOX10 spoke exclusively with a customer who stepped in to rescue employees held at gunpoint Tuesday, November 12.
The Good Samaritan, who we are not identifying, told FOX10 News he was shopping at the Family Dollar on Stanton road when he noticed a masked gunman leading one of the employees to the front of the store.
“He had the gun to his head. He had him on his knees,” said the man. “I drew my gun on him and I said 'Hey don't move.' At that point he swung around and before he had a chance to aim the gun at me I fired. I didn’t want to shoot him.”
White was transported to USA Medical Center, where he remains in police custody.
A family member who did not want to be identified said White should have never been shot to begin with.
“If his (the customer) life was not in danger, if no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him - what gives him the right to think that it's okay to just shoot someone?” said the relative. “You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.”
FOX10 had interviewed White’s parents but they later called and demanded the video not be aired.
Court records show that White was out on bond for robbing The Original Oyster House at gunpoint a little more than a month before the Family Dollar robbery.
We asked one relative her thoughts about the accusations.
“We don't know. Like I said, we don't know anything. We only know what we've been hearing second hand through the news. I would not like to comment because I don't know,” she said.
Records show the Baldwin County District Attorney's Office has now filed to have White’s original bond revoked.
Relatives said they have not been able to see the teen at USA Medical Center since he remains in police custody.
Meanwhile, Mobile Police have also arrested 19-year-old Tavoris Moss as an accomplice to the Family Dollar robbery.
Police maintain that the Good Samaritan who opened fire was justified and broke no law
the instructor of my CCW course went over this exact scenario trying to make us aware of possible consequences of taking action. he was like, hey, if the person in trouble is your friend or your cuz or your wife....easy decision....but what if it's a total stranger. this guy is gonna spend money on his legal defense for trying to protect a total stranger. depending on the jury....who knows...maybe he spends some time behind bars.
the crazy thing is...if he'd have kept in the back and let it play out....it's highly likely that nobody would have been hurt. BUT...say he stays back and the dude executes the store employee. me...I'd be sick the rest of my life knowing I could have saved that dude.
damned if you do....damned if you don't.
it's a helluva world man. it's a helluva world.
yep. I think it might ("might") vary by state.
my CCW instructor mentioned something that in KS (I believe) CCWs were not required to go through the threat escalation levels that LEOs are required to. If they feel their lives are in danger, they can act.
...now, that's what it's like on paper. But I agree; I'm sure the guy will get sued and lose. I also agree; deciding not to act and having the clerk executed, or him shooting people on his way out of the store etc.
Originally Posted by frankotank:
the instructor of my CCW course went over this exact scenario trying to make us aware of possible consequences of taking action. he was like, hey, if the person in trouble is your friend or your cuz or your wife....easy decision....but what if it's a total stranger. this guy is gonna spend money on his legal defense for trying to protect a total stranger. depending on the jury....who knows...maybe he spends some time behind bars.
the crazy thing is...if he'd have kept in the back and let it play out....it's highly likely that nobody would have been hurt. BUT...say he stays back and the dude executes the store employee. me...I'd be sick the rest of my life knowing I could have saved that dude.
damned if you do....damned if you don't.
it's a helluva world man. it's a helluva world.
I'm a lawyer, and I say BS to this. There is no chance of him going to jail, the article already says the police aren't pressing any charges. As for a civil suit, that has ZERO chance of winning and would get tossed very quickly I would think, plus he can probably find a lawyer to do it free just because it would be so high profile that the lawyer will get paid in publicity, plus some lawyers would be pretty pissed about the injustice of the suit.
Bottom line, if people's lives are in danger, you ****ing help them. This type of liability stuff is very overbown and will take care of itself most of the time. Either way, you can't put a price on doing the right thing.
Originally Posted by Hawk:
I'm a lawyer, and I say BS to this. There is no chance of him going to jail, the article already says the police aren't pressing any charges. As for a civil suit, that has ZERO chance of winning and would get tossed very quickly I would think, plus he can probably find a lawyer to do it free just because it would be so high profile that the lawyer will get paid in publicity, plus some lawyers would be pretty pissed about the injustice of the suit.
Bottom line, if people's lives are in danger, you ****ing help them. This type of liability stuff is very overbown and will take care of itself most of the time. Either way, you can't put a price on doing the right thing.
Yea, we discussed this in another topic and it’s not going anywhere.
Though the relatives getting all outraged does go to show that the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
