Bartholomew Roberts
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A woman driving her car witnessed a young man dressed all in black, carrying a "sawed-off shotgun" (which turned out to be a sawed-off pellet gun) and a stocking cap. She thought the man was approaching several terns so she yelled at him to leave the teens alone, at which point he pointed the gun at her. She then ran him over with her car.
Police are not charging her saying she had no duty to retreat in PA. The news report states the young man may have been on his way to rob a local convenience store: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ht-carrying-shotgun--actually-pellet-gun.html
I thought it was an interesting story from a couple of perspectives:
1. People often forget that their daily transportation is a fairly effective deadly weapon in its own right.
2. It was an interesting use of "no duty to retreat" between the driver and a pedestrian and illustrates one way SYG laws might be important in non-firearms self defense where someone tries to evade a robbery/carjacking in their vehicle.
3. If the reporting is to be believed, the woman apparently averted a robbery.
Police are not charging her saying she had no duty to retreat in PA. The news report states the young man may have been on his way to rob a local convenience store: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ht-carrying-shotgun--actually-pellet-gun.html
I thought it was an interesting story from a couple of perspectives:
1. People often forget that their daily transportation is a fairly effective deadly weapon in its own right.
2. It was an interesting use of "no duty to retreat" between the driver and a pedestrian and illustrates one way SYG laws might be important in non-firearms self defense where someone tries to evade a robbery/carjacking in their vehicle.
3. If the reporting is to be believed, the woman apparently averted a robbery.