A nice story!
What started out as a Mother’s Day brunch ended with a violent chase and a citizen’s arrest for some diners in southeast Portland Sunday morning.
Customers took down a carjacking suspect after he threatened a man with a knife in an Elmer’s restaurant parking lot, according to Sgt. Pete Simpson. Prior to the takedown, the suspect was involved in two hit-and-run crashes, according to witnesses.
Norman Heselton, who had his car sideswiped by the suspect, said he saw the suspect bail out of his car in the Elmer’s parking lot. He ran after the suspect with a friend.
“I held him down. He goes, ‘What’s going on?’ And I was like, ‘Dude, you just hit and run us! Police are on their way,'” Heselton said.
But the driver, who police identified as Jonathan Yager Jones, refused to go down without a fight. Heselton said Jones jumped up and pulled out a knife.
While the confrontation unfolded in the parking lot, Dave Rocks was leaving Elmer’s after Mother’s Day brunch.
Rocks said it looked like Jones “was going to kill someone,” so he pulled out his concealed handgun.
“Once he realized he was outnumbered, knife against gun, that’s when he gave up,” Rocks said.
better yet:
Police said they later discovered the suspect had stolen a car and then carjacked another person in Clackamas County before getting into the two accidents near I-205.
This guy was on a rampage, and was stopped!
good on them!
Also this story dovetails well with an image Joan Peterson likes on Pintrest:
First up the elephant in the room is the MASSIVE number that is suicides. The United States has more civilian arms per capita than any other nation…yet we’re just about in the middle when it comes to suicide. You want to tell me guns cause suicide???
But let’s look at that small “Justifiable Homicide” number. This case isn’t one of them. There are lots of other cases where no shots were fired, or the attacker lived. Seem like a valid image to you?
h/t Archer
