Jewelry Store Owner Kills Three Robbers

SF-TX · 12-17-2010, 08:29

Good shooting Mr. Castillo.

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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...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/7343008.html

ryno · 12-17-2010, 08:43

The only bad thing is that Mr. Castillo was wounded in the fight. Prayers for your recovery, Mr. Castillo and thank you for saving the tax payers money.

Dusty · 12-17-2010, 08:59

T-Rock · 12-17-2010, 09:25

Nice!

Get well soon Mr. Castillo, good job

Here’s another score for the good guys. A customer wrestles away the perps gun and shoots him with it

> http://patdollard.com/2010/12/custom...un-shoots-him/

fng13 · 12-17-2010, 10:46

Maybe the next guy will think twice before hitting that store.

aegisnavy · 12-17-2010, 11:50

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Originally Posted by T-Rock

Here’s another score for the good guys. A customer wrestles away the perps gun and shoots him with it

I love that story. Bravo Zulu to that customer. If he hadn't done that, more than likely they would have both been dead.

akv · 12-17-2010, 11:51

Get well soon Mr. Castillo.

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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.

Jgood · 12-17-2010, 11:52

Good job prayers for a fast recovery

mojaveman · 12-17-2010, 12:56

Let's send Mr. Castillo a congradulations card, a get well card, and also some more ammo. Yee-haa!

**18C4V** · 12-17-2010, 13:27

I hope they catch the driver and charge him. Great job on the owner.

drymartini66 · 12-17-2010, 14:05

I love gun control. One well aimed or in this case several well aimed shots.

dr. mabuse · 12-17-2010, 18:42

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SF-TX · 12-20-2010, 09:01

Another turd has been shot and killed while attempting to rob a store owner in the East End of Houston.

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Proprietors of small businesses in Houston's hardscrabble East End, resentful of criminals who can wreck their lives in a matter of moments, are striking back.

Twice in the past five days, business owners or their relatives have fatally shot robbers on the premises of their shops. Law enforcement officials are stepping up patrols and educational efforts, and owners of neighboring businesses are traumatized and angry.

"There's a lot of reason to be scared," said Guillermo Memo Villarreal, who owns a record shop midway between the scenes of the two recent robbery-shootings on Canal. "In one minute, they can destroy you."

On Saturday morning, police said, a man identified by police as the owner of Shew Food Market, in the 7500 block of Canal, shot a robber who was fleeing, along with an accomplice, after taking a bag containing a substantial sum of money...

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PR31C · 12-20-2010, 13:38

Three robbery suspects shot dead in Pittsburgh in one week.

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On Thursday, the owner of a Dormont repair garage took matters into his own hands when officials say a gunman entered his business.

Earlier in the week, authorities say a Sharpsburg man tussled with an assailant, and shot and killed the man with his own gun.

Last Friday, a Munhall woman did the same to a teenager who she says held her up at gunpoint.

Police say she was “able to disarm the robber and ultimately fired the gun at him and struck him in the chest.”

Story/video here

Back story to the third shooting, I happen to be a friend of friend of the female shooter. She was walking home from the store when the man approached her and drew the gun to rob her. Not happy with the little bit of money she handed over, he pushed her into the alley and told her she was going to "service him". While dropping to her knees, she pulled a knife from her purse and stabbed him in the leg. She then wrestled the gun off of him and he got "served".