AZ man trying to be a 'hero' charged after opening fire on shoplifting suspects on busy street

[marmar]

An Arizona man who was trying to be a “good guy with a gun” was arrested on multiple charges two months after he opened fire on shoplifting suspects.

John Haag was at a Walgreens in March when he spotted someone running from the store, and he asked employees if they’d been robbed, reported KNXV-TV.

The employees told Haag they had been robbed, and the chase was on.

The 25-year-old Haag ran from the store, jumped into his vehicle and pursued a U-Haul cargo van driven by the suspects, police said.

A witness recorded video of the pursuit on a busy Chandler street, and that video shows Haag pull alongside the cargo van, roll down his window, point a gun at the suspects and open fire. ..............(more)

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/arizona-man-trying-to-be-a-hero-charged-after-opening-fire-on-shoplifting-suspects-on-busy-street/

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. Yayyyy ... My state!

[Renew Deal]

2. Society tells these cowboys that they can do this.

Watch the video. The "good guy with the gun" is shooting out the window. Some other good guy with a gun could have shot him.

[just4lulzidk]

3. lulz. lemme take one wild guess how dirty harry votes

remind me again: why aren't real uhmuricans allowed to bring guns to the republican convention?

with so many good guys with guns in one place, nothing could ever possibly go wrong...

[ileus]

4. A CHP doesn't make you a LEO

It's for personal protection and saving/protecting the lives of loved ones, not chasing shoplifters.

[dem in texas]

5. Similiar event in parking lot of Walgreens in Texas, different outcome

Man shoots wife in ankle outside a Walgreens in Arlington, Texas. A bystander who was a "good-guy with a gun" pulls his pistol to arrest the shooter. Shooter, who is the "bad guy with a gun", shoots and kills the wanna-be hero.

[Nye Bevan]

6. Who did that fucking imbecile think he was, some kind of Hollywood action hero?

He should be charged with attempted murder and never again allowed to own a gun.