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Fortunately this ended better than it could have. Fucking thieves.
http://www.kfdm.com/news/houston-40656-suspects-jewelry.html
Houston jewelry store owner kills three robbery suspects
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December 16, 2010 5:05 PM
Scott Lawrence
HOUSTON - From KHOU TV - Three suspects were gunned down Thursday afternoon during a holdup at an east Houston jewelry store, according to police.
The owner of the store was also shot, but he survived.
Three young men barged into Castillo's Jewelry in the 4500 block of Canal just before 2 p.m.
All three had guns, according to police.
The owner of the store pulled out his own gun when one of the suspects started dragging his wife into the back of the store.
He shot that suspect then ducked behind the counter, grabbed a shotgun and shot the other two suspects.
The owner was wounded when one of the suspects returned fire. He was taken to Ben Taub Hospital where he was last reported in fair condition.
The store owner's wife was not injured.
All three suspects were pronounced dead at the scene.
This story comes to us through our media partnership with KHOU-TV.
http://www.kfdm.com/news/houston-40656-suspects-jewelry.html
Houston jewelry store owner kills three robbery suspects
Comments 1
December 16, 2010 5:05 PM
Scott Lawrence
HOUSTON - From KHOU TV - Three suspects were gunned down Thursday afternoon during a holdup at an east Houston jewelry store, according to police.
The owner of the store was also shot, but he survived.
Three young men barged into Castillo's Jewelry in the 4500 block of Canal just before 2 p.m.
All three had guns, according to police.
The owner of the store pulled out his own gun when one of the suspects started dragging his wife into the back of the store.
He shot that suspect then ducked behind the counter, grabbed a shotgun and shot the other two suspects.
The owner was wounded when one of the suspects returned fire. He was taken to Ben Taub Hospital where he was last reported in fair condition.
The store owner's wife was not injured.
All three suspects were pronounced dead at the scene.
This story comes to us through our media partnership with KHOU-TV.
Ol' School Judge Roy Bean kinda shit!
Of course JMAR should be around anytime to say the owner should have never had a gun to begin with, or fired it in self defense.
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Reality is the 3 perps families should have to pay his doctors bills and thats the end of it.
Good on him.
Houston store owner praised after killing three robbers
By Peggy O'Hare, Houston Chronicle
Published: 07:24 a.m., Friday, December 17, 2010
In the back room of a humble jewelry store and pawn shop in Houston's East End Thursday afternoon, a gunman tied Eva Castillo's wrists tightly - too tightly. She complained of the pain, so he loosened the bindings. Then Castillo's husband was ordered at gunpoint to put his hands behind his back.
But Ramon Castillo had a surprise for the gunman and two cohorts, who had announced they were robbing the business.
Castillo pulled a pistol from his waistband and shot the gunman dead. Then he grabbed a shotgun from his office and engaged in a shootout with the other two armed robbers.
When it was over, all three robbers were dead - and Castillo, though shot at least three times, was still standing, having successfully defended what was rightfully his.
It was the third time his shop, Castillo's Jewelry at 4502 Canal at Super Street, had been robbed since it opened 22 years ago, East End residents said.
Castillo, 52, apparently did not immediately realize he had been shot, officers said. He walked outside the store and looked around for more gunmen, then went back inside the business, realized he was wounded and untied his 48-year-old wife, who was unharmed, said Houston Police Department homicide investigator M.F. "Fil" Waters.
He remained in surgery at Ben Taub General Hospital late Thursday, where he was listed in critical but stable condition, with gunshot wounds to his left shoulder, left abdomen and legs, Houston police said. He is expected to survive.
Investigators said so many shots were fired inside the jewelry shop in a two- or three-minute span that they could not estimate the number of rounds. "We've got bullet fragments all over the place, casings all over the place, shotgun slugs all over the place, so it's really hard to determine at this point how many rounds were actually fired - but quite a few," Waters said.
"It is a pretty incredible story. The man was clearly defending his business, clearly defending his wife," Waters said. "It's amazing with all the bullets flying around in there that she wasn't hit."
'It's about time'
East End residents smiled proudly when they learned how Castillo had taken charge and protected his wife of 28 years. It is the first time he has turned the tables on his attackers, they said.
"It's about time he did something," said Theresa Arellano, 49, a lifelong East End resident.
Neighbors described the Castillos as a hard-working couple who labor seven days a week and take care of customers who live in the neighborhood, selling jewelry at affordable prices and allowing people to pay small amounts toward purchases in layaway.
They said Castillo protects his store like a fortress, using an electronic door to buzz customers in and out. Customers are locked inside the store until they leave. Numerous video cameras are inside. "He's done everything he can do to secure his business," Waters said.
The dead robbers' names were not released, but police said they are not believed to be from the neighborhood.
"Somebody would have to be stupid to come rob the place because of the way it's set up," said a 30-year-old East End resident who would not give his name. "Everybody in the neighborhood knows how it is - everybody knows once you get in, he has to let you out. When you walk in, he buzzes you in, and when you walk out, he has to buzz you out."
The crime unfolded at 2:08 p.m. Thursday when two men posing as customers came into the store and asked the Castillos to show them some rings. As the husband and wife helped the two men, a third man walked into the store, pulled a pistol and announced he was robbing the business.
The two men who had posed as customers also then pulled pistols on the Castillos, police said. The Castillos were ordered to the back of the store at gunpoint, where Eva Castillo was tied up.
Castillo then pulled a pistol from his waistband, "obviously fearing for the safety of his wife and himself," said HPD spokesman Kese Smith. Castillo killed the robber who had tried to tie him up, then grabbed his shotgun from his office and killed the other two men.
Police are looking for a possible fourth suspect who may have dropped off the third robber at the jewelry shop.
That man never got out of his car. He is described as Hispanic, 20 to 25, with a short buzz haircut and a thin face. He was dressed as a construction worker. He drove away in a "boxy" brown or gold-colored vehicle that may have been an early 1990s model Nissan Sentra or Toyota.
The Castillos' shop was last robbed in 1993, according to a cursory check of HPD records, Waters said.
The Castillos also run a second business on the weekend at a flea market on Telephone Road, East End residents said.
Eva Castillo remained at the hospital with her husband Thursday night. The couple's son, who stayed at the jewelry shop talking to police, declined to speak with the media.
W/O the wifey.
I was wrong. Billy Jack should pay for all the inmates care, housing, food, health, dental, vision, for 25 to life.
Alternate ending - Store owner killed while store is being robbed, and wife was raped and beaten to death..
I'd feel a lot worse with that story coming out.
There's a reaction for every action. This time it worked.
There ARE some criminals that jus' don't need to be "around"...anymore.
This truly IS Justice.
Good riddance to the perps and get well store owner.
Like I said, you assholes are just as crazy as the criminals...The difference is that you don't express it by breaking into places. You express it by taking joy in some petty criminals dying. Not one of you guys are better than those three dead criminals.
Look, we don't necessarily take joy in ending someone's life, but for me, I can tell you that I surely take joy in saving a life. I'll take one to save one if it's mine...Get it?
Pit Row
I have a "Mob", their called friends. I leave my front door open, and friends walk in and out of it all day long. If someone who is not a friend walks in, what are my friends supposed to do? Make a phone call?
Store owner and wife live
Bad guys pay the ultimate price for their crimes
Because of the Castle Doctrine, the Bad guys family, friends, etc cannot file a civil suit against the store owner
The bad side of this story:
The store owner will most likely go to jail once he gets out of the hospital, and will have to post bail.
The store owner (and most likely his wife) lives will have changed forever because of the decision both he made and the bad guys made to use guns in this situation.
Especially if the investigators log into the store owners Netflix account and finds that he has rented the movie Fargo 237 times...
Its pretty simple. Old west justice. Rustlers took some lead stealing cows. Done.
The only mistake that guy made was not having the wife packing. I know a guy with a similar store. The wife is packing, and a great marksman. And she aint afraid to pull the trigger on a POS.
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