These posts are based on our Good Guy with a Gun calendar. Today’s post is somewhat updated from the calendar version.
Just before four on a Sunday morning, two men came up on a 34-year-old on a residential street on the far West Side of San Antonio and tried to rob him.
He had a handgun. He took it out and fired, and he hit both of them.
When the police arrived, officers found a 23-year-old man there with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to the hospital and listed in critical condition. During the investigation, police were told that a second man had been taken to a hospital too, with a gunshot to the hip; they questioned him and some witnesses, and were told that wound came from the same scene.
They recovered a weapon and shell casings on the street, along with a weapon, though the reporting doesn’t say whom it belonged to.
So for some part of that morning, the published police account of what happened out there didn’t have a good guy in it. “The San Antonio Police Department is trying to determine if the two men who were shot were shooting at each other, or if someone else did the shooting,” mySA reported.
At that hour, with two men shot and one gun on the ground, it seems like a pretty good question.
By nine that morning, the account had a good guy in it. “After an investigation was conducted, it was determined that the two shooting suspects were armed and had attempted to rob the victim,” the department said. As the two came at him, the 34-year-old took out a handgun and defended himself, “firing at the suspects.” The case was being investigated as an aggravated robbery.
Sources
News
San Antonio man shoots 2 men attempting to rob him, SAPD says (mySA / San Antonio Express-News)
KSAT ran the day-of write-up and a segment on the morning newscast.
2A / specialist media
Victim Defends Himself Against Two Armed Robbers in San Antonio, Sends Both to the Hospital (USA Carry, Luke McCoy)
Armed Texan Shoots 2 Armed Robbers, Sending Both To Hospital (Concealed Nation, Brandon Curtis)