A young man is dead and another is seriously injured after a shooting during an attempted robbery of a basketball coach near a Detroit high school.
MyFoxDetroit.com reports that a 70-year-old coach for the girl’s basketball team at Martin Luther King Junior High School was walking two students to their cars at the school when the shooting occurred.
Detroit Public Schools spokesman says the male coach, who has not been identified, was targeted by two teenagers who allegedly tried to rob him.
When one of the suspected robbers reportedly pulled a gun, the coach allegedly fired back, fatally shooting 16-year-old Michael Scott and injuring the other person, according to MyFoxDetroit.com.
I have no idea of the legality of the coach carrying the gun, or if his job is now in jeopardy for carrying his gun. Still the fact that the coach was escorting students to their cars says he was charging himself with their safety, and also he was smart enough to know that a 70 year old man, and teenage girls can be quickly overpowered, guns or no guns.
Also I’d like to add this:
Priscilla Scott, Michael’s mother, told MyFoxDetroit.com that her son didn’t own a gun.
Not legally he didn’t at 16, but criminals will find a way, and no laws will stop them.
What laws will do is prevent the good from protecting the innocent, and I certainly suspect this coach may be in some trouble for doing what I think we can all agree, is the right thing in a dangerous area.
Be safe out there!
Apparently, he is a “reserve police officer”, so he’s probably one of the privileged few allowed to legally carry at a school.
Still, it’s a good thing he was there and armed.
Well I’m glad he likely won’t face punishment for doing the right thing.
The shame is that so many don’t have the same privilege of self defense.
The precious snowflake likely used a “community gun” from the local gang’s stash.
I made this comment over at Miguel’s:
70-year-old girls basketball coach. Two bad guys who “had attended the high school, and one had been recently expelled” (emphasis added). Shots fired during an attack involving another gun, with one bad guy dead and the other wounded.
According to the antis (to whom “defensive gun use” is a myth), the headline should read:
Two Boys Shot, One Killed, By Old Gunman Who Regularly Enjoys the Company of Young Teen Girls
You can also chalk this one under VPC’s “Concealed Carry Killers” and Baldr Odinson’s “Child Gun Deaths”.