Good Guy with a Gun #140: Philadelphia, PA (free post)

He wanted the Mustang. He got incoming fire instead. | Original incident: March 20, 2024

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Hello, Mr. Carjacker. Meet my good buddies Smith & Wesson.

I know, it’s an old joke. It still fits.

This incident occurred in North Philly. This is an area that has seen a lot of change for the better, at least physically, over the past decade.

Google Street View photos from 2014 until 2025. You can see the apartments coming in on the left and the façade work on the building to the right.

It was 1:30 AM. A man was parked in his Mustang next to that fire hydrant you can see in the picture above. (You can’t see it in this picture, though.)

A man tried to carjack him, but the driver pulled his own gun and opened fire, driving him off.

We don’t know who the carjacker is, or whether he got hit. But the victim was unharmed and enjoying his wheels.

Sources

I can find exactly one news source that covered this incident: Fox 29.

Brandon Curtis covered it at Concealed Nation.