Some twists and turns in this story!
According to Houston police,**REDACTED** was confronted about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday by his supervisor and another employee who claimed **REDACTED** had disrespected him in front of customers at their workplace.
…According to police, when **REDACTED** found out he was being terminated, he began punching his accuser and threatening to kill him. As the argument escalated, **REDACTED** allegedly tried to stab his coworker with a screwdriver. In defense, the coworker stabbed **REDACTED** with a pocketknife.
**REDACTED** died at the scene.
So employee gets fired for being a jerk (subjective), and when he is told about this becomes violent (sounds like the boss made a good call!), punches and threats escalate to deadly force with a screwdriver. Given that this is Texas of COURSE the guy had a pocket knife on him (in Texas that is not “Armed” that’s “Dressed”) and used the knife to defend himself. He defended himself so well his attacker died.
No charges filed.
It goes without saying that there was no “Gun Death”. Still the anti-gun people claim they focus on “Gun Death” because guns make “common encounters” “More deadly”. Well except this was a very common encounter, bad employee gets terminated for an infraction. Happens all the time. The terminated employee gets angry about it, less common, but still not rare. It does become more rare that this animus would become physically violent, but if murder is on somebody’s mind, it’s not like it takes a gun, or a magic sword, or a nuclear weapon to kill another person. The fist assault could have turned deadly. Just about anything can be used as in improvised impact weapon, in this case the screwdriver as a stabbing implement was used. Also the defending weapon was a knife, which some people consider a “Weapon”, the report doesn’t say what kind of business it was, but I wonder if opening packages and boxes were part of the daily activities at this place. I’m a damn scientist, and I rarely find a day where I don’t use my knife for work duties, and others who foolishly don’t carry knives will seek me out when they want something opened.
We say that weapons are simply tools, well this tool was likely NOT a weapon, but when the time came to it, it was used as such.
