Good Guy with a Gun #198: St. Louis County, MO

Martin Thiongo forced his way into a neighbor's apartment, allegedly to kill him. The neighbor had a gun. Thus ends our tale. | Original incident: May 6, 2024

These posts are based on our Good Guy with a Gun calendar. Today’s post is essentially the same as the calendar version.

Martin Thiongo lived in the same apartment complex as a man for whom he apparently lacked fondness.

He forced his way into that man’s abode. He allegedly said that he planned to kill his intended quarry.

Alas! for Martin Thiongo — as he gave pursuit into the man’s bedchamber, his would-be victim retrieved a firearm and shot Thiongo in the haunch. And thus our drama ends, with the hunted free and the hunter in the snare of the law.

I do wonder about the charge: Our source says both:

Thiongo allegedly said he’d planned to kill the man in the apartment.

and:

The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Thiongo with first-degree burglary.

How is that not attempted murder? I suppose the allegation of the utterance was just hearsay. Not for me to say, and there’s no follow-up to see what the disposition of this case was. Maybe it was the most provable charge rather than the most severe.

Sources

We have just one source for this story that I can find: Fox2Now.