Good Guy with a Gun #230: Longview, TX

What are the odds that both homeowners were armed? Before you answer: It's Texas. | Original incident: June 16, 2024

These posts are based on our Good Guy with a Gun calendar. Today’s post is somewhat updated from the calendar version.

Saturday night was just changing to Sunday morning in Longview, Texas, as 23-year-old Johan Nino was driving a vehicle — and collided with an SUV.

No word on who was at fault. Accidents happen. But Nino bolted, leaving behind someone “trapped in the SUV,” which seems suspicious as well as being illegal.

Was he drunk? Was the vehicle stolen? Whatever the case, he headed east, passing something like eighteen houses and a 24-hour Shell station by the half-mile mark. If he wanted help, he could have knocked on any of those doors or gone into the Shell station.

Instead, after spending 20 minutes going three-quarters of a mile, he tried to enter a residence.

The homeowner confronted him with a gun, and he bolted again.

But it wasn’t over! Several minutes later, he tried to enter another home, just 150 yards away. This homeowner was also armed — this is Texas, after all — but he didn’t just “confront” Nino, who succumbed to gunshot injuries at the hospital.

No charges were filed as a result of the situation, and there’s no word on the condition of the woman who was trapped in the SUV (which I take to be good news).

Sources

Primary

The Longview PD’s report is on Facebook, along with lots of mostly annoying comments.

Local news

These are all roughly the same, as they often are when (a) there’s not much to investigate and (b) the aggressor died: KETK Fox 51, CBS 19, KLTV 7, and the Longview News-Journal (archived).

Specialist / 2A outlets

Sean Holt at USACarry covered the incident individually, and Mark Chesnut covered it at The Truth About Guns in a round-up called, “Last Half Of June Was Tough On Texas Home Invaders”. Ain’t that the truth.