A Chicago grocery store customer holding a concealed carry license shot and killed a suspected robber on Saturday night.
The suspect, Reginald Gildersleeve, 55, allegedly entered Agencia Mexicana at around 7 p.m. wearing a mask and pulled out what appeared to be a gun, The Chicago Tribune reported.
He was actually holding a paintball gun, Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told The Huffington Post.
Gildersleeve allegedly declared that he was robbing the store, then pointed the paintball gun at an employee and forced her towards the back of the business, according to the Associated Press. A customer, who was legally carrying a concealed gun, then shot Gildersleeve multiple times, fatally wounding him.
His stepson, Igbinosa Oronsaye, said Gildersleeve didn’t deserve to be killed.
“Now my heart feels like ice,” he told the Tribune. “I loved that man so dearly."
No one else was injured in the incident.
Spokesman Guglielmi told HuffPost that the customer who shot Gildersleeve will not face charges, since officials consider the shooting to have been self-defense.
Contact the author at Hilary.Hanson@huffingtonpost.com
-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
from Chicago - The Huffington Post http://ift.tt/1NMTLrB
via IFTTT
No comments:
Post a Comment