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Speak about selecting the improper couple to mess with.
Final week in west Houston, a person decked out like a U.S. Marshal tried to rob a liquor retailer proprietor at gunpoint – solely to finish up shot and crawling again to his getaway automobile with out his sneakers.
Based on ABC13 Houston, the drama unfolded when Javier Reyes, proprietor of the shop off Gessner and Harwin, stepped exterior to take out the trash.
That’s when a pink automobile pulled up, and out jumped a masked man sporting a tactical vest labeled “Marshal,” flashlight in a single hand and gun within the different.
“He instructed me, ‘I’m the police. Get on the ground!’” Reyes recalled. “I stated, ‘I didn’t do something!’”
The suspect compelled Reyes to the bottom, then revealed his actual motive: “It’s a theft. I’m not the police.”
However little did he know Reyes wasn’t alone. Watching from inside, Reyes’ spouse grabbed her personal gun and rushed out to confront the faux cop. Chaos erupted.
Because the suspect bolted, he misplaced his sneakers and even dropped his gun. Reyes drew his personal weapon and fired a number of pictures, hitting the suspect at the very least as soon as earlier than the person crawled into the getaway automobile.
“The police instructed me I did an incredible job,” Reyes stated.
Authorities later recognized the suspect as 39-year-old Jonathan Prince, now charged with theft and impersonating a public servant. He turned up at a hospital with gunshot wounds shortly after the failed heist.
Reyes instructed ABC13 he’s relieved Prince is behind bars, however he and his spouse are nonetheless shaken and haven’t returned to the shop but.
Police are nonetheless investigating whether or not anybody else within the pink getaway automobile will face costs.
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