Here’s A Hero, And A Houston Grand Jury Recognized Him As Such
a 46-year-old Houston man who a year ago shot and killed a career criminal who was attempting the armed robbery of a local restaurant just had a grand jury refuse to return an indictment against him, in a case which helps to restore a bit of our faith in America.
Here’s video of the shooting. The grand jury saw this as justifiable…
We’re not sure it’s true that the robber was leaving. We are sure the robber was more than a little careless in assuming the patrons of the taqueria in question were going to be unarmed and docile…in Texas.
In any event, KHOU-TV has the details…
A grand jury declined to file charges against the man who shot and killed a robber at a southwest Houston taqueria last year.
The shooting happened on Jan. 5, 2023, at the El Ranchito taqueria on South Gessner Road.
Eric Eugene Washington, 30, was shot and killed as he walked through the restaurant robbing people, according to police.
In the wake of the shooting, there were calls for the shooter to be charged. Some called him a “vigilante.” Others called the man who shot and killed the robber a hero.
Restaurant owner Pedro Lopez agreed with the grand jury’s decision. He also said the customer who fired the shots hasn’t returned in the year since the shooting.
The 46-year-old shooter was never identified.
And here’s Eric Eugene Washington, whose deficiencies in tactical awareness combined with his moral deficiences to check him out of this mortal life early…
Washington didn’t live a very exemplary life…
if you’re like us, you are really, really tired of hearing about how these lowlifes are “turning their lives around” when they’re killed attempting to commit a crime. Criminal culture shouldn’t be tolerated in a society, and it especially can’t be tolerated in the black community where it finds most of its victims.
Yes, most victims of violent crime – or at the very minimum, depending on the study you look at, a vastly disproportionate number of those victims – are black.
And yet we have to hear paeans to the transformative efforts of the Eugene Washingtons of the world when he brings a Saturday Night Special into a taqueria and demands cash and credit cards from ordinary folks.
To hell with that, said those Houston grand jurors. Whoever the shooter was at the El Ranchito, he did the world a favor by ridding society of a menace.
But what’s so irritating about this is that you aren’t hearing – from leaders in the black community in Houston or elsewhere – the most important lesson that can be gleaned from this event.
Namely, that it’s crucial for kids to understand how damaging a choice it is to live one’s life like Eugene Washington did.
Instead we’re subjected to these maudlin bromides about “vigilantes” and “racism.” As though it mattered what race Eugene Washington was when he decided to wave a gun around as he tried to rob a restaurant full of patrons. What mattered was the robbery, not the race of the robber.
Anyway, we don’t know who the shooter was. All we know is we’re with the grand jury. A blow was struck for the defense of civilization in that grand jury room, and we couldn’t be happier. Maybe the next Eugene Washington will stop and think for a minute before trying a stickup at a taqueria.
