Posted on 09/12/2004 6:14:32 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Suspects escape after four-block car chase while shots were fired back and forth
When Amir Borhani heard his dad screaming during a robbery outside their family-owned food market in southwest Houston Friday, he ran out of the store and was met by the barrel of a semiautomatic weapon and a man with a handkerchief tied around his face.
"I looked straight into the barrel and then straight into his eyes and yelled, 'No, don't shoot,' " said Borhani, 25.
What followed was an "incredible" four-block gunbattle between Borhani, a family friend and a carload of robbers who communicated with each other by walkie-talkie. The robbers got away, but not before one of them was shot in the leg, Houston police said.
The incident began about 3 p.m. at Tony's Market/Check Cashing store on the corner of Dashwood and Rampart. Borhani's father was struggling with a robber over a backpack when his son joined the confrontation. During the chaos, the older man managed to free himself, and Borhani grabbed his father's gun and exchanged fire with the three robbers as they fled for their car.
A family friend then grabbed another gun that was kept inside the store.
The friend and Borhani jumped inside their car and followed the robbers. Borhani said shots were fired back and forth for a few blocks.
During the chase, the suspect's car spun out of control and crashed into a utility box. The occupants got out of the vehicle and started to run.
Sgt. R.W. Mascheck of the Houston Police Department said the family friend managed to shoot one of them in the leg before they got away. By then, Borhani had emptied his father's gun.
Mascheck said he doubted charges would be filed against Borhani or his friend. Mascheck said investigators were checking to make sure the store owner had permits for both of the guns.
The robbery suspects were most likely picked up by someone driving a white Lincoln Continental that was following the vehicles, Mascheck said.
"It's absolutely incredible from the number of shots that were fired and all the bystanders who were on the street that no one was hurt," he said.
Mascheck said the robbers had probably watched the store owner to learn when he went to the bank.
Investigators said the robbers probably thought they would hit the jackpot by robbing the market and check cashing store on a Friday.
But police reported there was no more than $200 in the backpack.
Date on the article should be 9/3/04
I sure didn't know we had to have a permit to own a weapon in Texas.
and Kerry, Kennedy, Schumer & Fine-Swine wants ALL AMERICANS to be properly disarmed so that armed criminals can do to us whatever they will!!
Note to Bohrani - get larger clip.
Shotguns. Next time try shotguns.
Who wants dibs on the movie rights? ;-)
>> Borhani had emptied his father's gun.
> Note to Bohrani - get larger clip.
On Tuesday.
Now that the AWB's going to sunset, he needs to go down and buy a gun that can hold a large magazine so he won't run out of ammo next time. ;-)
We don't. You need a permit for concealed carry, but that wouldn't apply to a gun that they kept in their place of business.
Thanks for the information. I was hoping that was true.
Investigators were probably just checking to make sure the guns were not reported stolen.
I'm surprised the store owners were not charged for chasing the perps down in their car even though there was no longer a threat to their lives and property. Glad they're not in trouble though.
Could it be a Houston City Ordinance?
Actually - on Monday - the ban expires at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.
Sad, but that might happen.
Maybe, I don't know. I live in the country and I though everyone had a rifle, shotgun and a few pistols.
I hope it is a new policy, but if not, perhaps you can make it policy? 8-) It's very important to our survival as a nation. IMHO
I sure do. They're a way of life for country folks. NM is 60% rural, so we have lots of gun owners. I've killed 3 rattle snakes this summer and a friend killed another one at my house. That's not the most important reason I have guns though. They're for self defense.
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