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Robber shot dead - family argues he was shot too many times

BillHoo

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The family of a Chicago man gunned down during a robbery attempt are calling for his shooter, a concealed weapon permit-holder, to be prosecuted for the shooting. The Washington Post is helping to further that effort, suggesting the failed robbery could even be a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong.

Police say Saturday night Reginald Gildersleeve walked into the small bodega Agencia Mexicana while wearing a mask and announced a holdup, whipping out what appeared to be gun. Moments later he was gunned down by an unnamed patron. It was later discovered that Gildersleeve’s gun was a paintball gun. (RELATED: Chicago Man With Concealed Carry Permit Shoots And Kills Armed Robber)

Chicago police are treating the case as rather open-and-shut. Even if Gildersleeve wasn’t carrying a real gun, he was brandishing like it was, and the shooter acted accordingly.

But now, Gildersleeve’s family is calling for charges to be levied, saying that the habitual criminal didn’t deserve to die. Igbinosa Oronsaye, Gildersleeve’s stepson, told The Chicago Tribune the shooter overreacted in shooting multiple times.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/02/a...ins-he-was-shot-too-many-times/#ixzz3xDxVhM3b


Miller then says the robbery was all one big misunderstanding, because Gildersleeve was reportedly a former employee of Agencia Mexicana and knew the owner.

“Was the shooting a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong?” he asks.

Miller’s article also opens with a 2011 picture taken from Gildersleeve’s Facebook, showing him standing with his wife and holding a Bible. He describes Gildersleeve trying to “turn his life around,” based mostly on his marriage and his posting of family photos and inspirational quotes on Facebook. He even describes Gildersleeve as being “gunned down” during the robbery by a “concealed-weapon-toting customer,” although the phrased “gunned down” is typically used for those shot while doing nothing wrong.

“Some people don’t actually know how to use guns,” Oronsaye said. “They go to firing ranges, but it’s not the same as a bullet going into someone’s body, it’s not the same as a bullet going into flesh. They should be able to wound first, kill next. He didn’t deserve to get shot multiple times.”

Oronsaye also said the shooter needed to be punished for killing a member of the community.

“You just took a brother, you just took a father from a lot of people. Somebody’s got to answer for that,” he said.

The family’s argument is being pushed along by The Washington Post, where writer Michael Miller says the shooting is “raising questions.” Miller wrote up Gildersleeve’s death Monday morning in a manner that seems intended to frame Gildersleeve in the best possible light. Miller, for instance, describes the shooting as “mysterious” because it “occurred on Halloween and involved a man in a mask with a fake gun,” although robberies with fake guns happen all the time.


http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/02/armed-robbers-family-complains-he-was-shot-too-many-times/\
 
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The family of a Chicago man gunned down during a robbery attempt are calling for his shooter, a concealed weapon permit-holder, to be prosecuted for the shooting. The Washington Post is helping to further that effort, suggesting the failed robbery could even be a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong.

Police say Saturday night Reginald Gildersleeve walked into the small bodega Agencia Mexicana while wearing a mask and announced a holdup, whipping out what appeared to be gun. Moments later he was gunned down by an unnamed patron. It was later discovered that Gildersleeve’s gun was a paintball gun. (RELATED: Chicago Man With Concealed Carry Permit Shoots And Kills Armed Robber)

Chicago police are treating the case as rather open-and-shut. Even if Gildersleeve wasn’t carrying a real gun, he was brandishing like it was, and the shooter acted accordingly.

But now, Gildersleeve’s family is calling for charges to be levied, saying that the habitual criminal didn’t deserve to die. Igbinosa Oronsaye, Gildersleeve’s stepson, told The Chicago Tribune the shooter overreacted in shooting multiple times.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/02/a...ins-he-was-shot-too-many-times/#ixzz3xDxVhM3b


Miller then says the robbery was all one big misunderstanding, because Gildersleeve was reportedly a former employee of Agencia Mexicana and knew the owner.

“Was the shooting a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong?” he asks.

Miller’s article also opens with a 2011 picture taken from Gildersleeve’s Facebook, showing him standing with his wife and holding a Bible. He describes Gildersleeve trying to “turn his life around,” based mostly on his marriage and his posting of family photos and inspirational quotes on Facebook. He even describes Gildersleeve as being “gunned down” during the robbery by a “concealed-weapon-toting customer,” although the phrased “gunned down” is typically used for those shot while doing nothing wrong.

“Some people don’t actually know how to use guns,” Oronsaye said. “They go to firing ranges, but it’s not the same as a bullet going into someone’s body, it’s not the same as a bullet going into flesh. They should be able to wound first, kill next. He didn’t deserve to get shot multiple times.”

Oronsaye also said the shooter needed to be punished for killing a member of the community.

“You just took a brother, you just took a father from a lot of people. Somebody’s got to answer for that,” he said.

The family’s argument is being pushed along by The Washington Post, where writer Michael Miller says the shooting is “raising questions.” Miller wrote up Gildersleeve’s death Monday morning in a manner that seems intended to frame Gildersleeve in the best possible light. Miller, for instance, describes the shooting as “mysterious” because it “occurred on Halloween and involved a man in a mask with a fake gun,” although robberies with fake guns happen all the time.


http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/02/armed-robbers-family-complains-he-was-shot-too-many-times/\
He was wounded first. That stopped him.
 

rscottie

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This just shows that thugs are not used to victims fighting back in Chicago. They expect their victims to just hand over the goods.

I wonder what these thugs that are getting shot are thinking when their victims decide to start shooting them? I'm sure it is quite upsetting.

The surviving family members are just as surprised as they are used to their thug relatives committing their crimes, getting arrested, getting released, and then doing it again and again.

Now it is a shock when those thugs do not come home from "work".

Isn't it sad when you can't find good victims anymore? :uhoh:
 

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For new readers, the arguments can be reduced to a few points:

Basic human right to self.

Basic human right to defend self.

Once lethal force is justified, enough repetitions of lethal force are justified until the threat is no longer a threat.

In this day and age, the level and kind of force that will stop a right-now threat just happens to also often be lethal to the assailant. It is a technological point. Perhaps one day phasers set on stun will be sufficient. That is not the situation today. Today, the amount and kind of force that will shut down right now! a threat of deadly force or grave bodily injury happens to also be potentially lethal to the assailant.

Shooting moving legs and arms with certainty of a hit is beyond the ability of even competition shooters. This is why even cops are trained to shoot to center of mass. If cops--the professionals--are trained to shoot center-of-mass, demanding a citizen try to stop a deadly threat by "winging him" is absurd.
 

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You buy your ticket and take your chances!!!!
 

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Has anyone went and facebooked Igbinosa Oronsaye? Thats the nephew to the dead guy. The one crying. He has THUG all over his FB and I wonder why anyone would have interviewed such a character.
 

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greetings I joined this forum for a simple reason

after clicking on a link in this thread a MAJOR flaw in facebook "security" was made apparent to me and I have sent a PM to the person in question detailing the incident

at this time I will simply say I would never post a link from facebook on a forum from a mobile device ever again

I will leave it up to that forum member if they would like me to further detail what happened after they have the chance to fix the situation on their end

but suffice it to say facebook is a nothing but an invasion of your personal privacy and a major risk to personal security and safety and using it from a mobile device is even worse and it appears posting a link from a mobile device is now worse in terms of "security"
 
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