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发信人: cr2069 (在银行里面下象棋的奥特曼), 信区: Texas
标 题: 这个猛，一下子干掉三个抢劫的。
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Dec 17 12:11:16 2010, 美东)
昨天屯子里发生的抢劫案。4个抢劫者被当场干掉了3个，就一个开车的逃掉了。这老板
真牛～
Owner kills 3 robbers in jewelry store shootout
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7343008.html
In the back room of a humble jewelry store and pawn shop in Houston's East E
nd Thursday afternoon, a gunman tied Eva Castillo's wrists tightly — too ti
ghtly. She complained of the pain, so he loosened the bindings. Then Castill
o'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 an
nounced they were robbing the business.
Castillo pulled a pistol from his waistband and shot the gunman dead. Then h
e 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 a
t least three times, was still standing, having successfully defended what w
as rightfully his.
It was the third time his shop, Castillo's Jewelry at 4502 Canal at Super St
reet, had been robbed since it opened 22 years ago, East End residents said.
Castillo, 52, apparently did not immediately realize he had been shot, offic
ers said. He walked outside the store and looked around for more gunmen, the
n went back inside the business, realized he was wounded and untied his 48-y
ear-old wife, who was unharmed, said Houston Police Department homicide inve
stigator M.F. "Fil" Waters.
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 sur
vive.
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. "W
e've got bullet fragments all over the place, casings all over the place, sh
otgun slugs all over the place, so it's really hard to determine at this poi
nt how many rounds were actually fired - but quite a few," Waters said.
"It is a pretty incredible story. The man was clearly defending his business
, clearly defending his wife," Waters said. "It's amazing with all the bulle
ts flying around in there that she wasn't hit."
'It's about time'
East End residents smiled proudly when they learned how Castillo had taken c
harge and protected his wife of 28 years. It is the first time he has turned
the tables on his attackers, they said.
"It's about time he did something," said Theresa Arellano, 49, a lifelong Ea
st End resident.
Neighbors described the Castillos as a hard-working couple who labor seven d
ays a week and take care of customers who live in the neighborhood, selling
jewelry at affordable prices and allowing people to pay small amounts y towa
rd purchases in layaway.They said Castillo protects his store like a fortres
s, using an electronic door to buzz customers in and out. Customers are lock
ed inside the store until they leave. Numerous video cameras are inside. "He
's done everything he can do to secure his business," Waters said.
The dead robbers' names were not released, but police said they are not beli
eved to be from the neighborhood.
"Somebody would have to be stupid to come rob the place because of the way i
t's set up," said a 30-year-old East End resident who would not give his nam
e. "Everybody in the neighborhood knows how it is - everybody knows once you
get in, he has to let you out. When you walk in, he buzzes you in, and when
you walk out, he has to buzz you out."
The crime unfolded at 2:08 p.m. Thursday when two men posing as customers ca
me into the store and asked the Castillos to show them some rings. As the hu
sband and wife helped the two men, a third man walked into the store, pulled
a pistol and announced he was robbing the business.
The two men who had posed as customers also then pulled pistols on the Casti
llos, police said. The Castillos were ordered to the back of the store at gu
npoint, where Eva Castillo was tied up.
Castillo then pulled a pistol from his waistband, "obviously fearing for the
safety of his wife and himself," said HPD spokesman Kese Smith. Castillo ki
lled the robber who had tried to tie him up, then grabbed his shotgun from h
is office and killed the other two men.
Police are looking for a possible fourth suspect who may have dropped off th
e third robber at the jewelry shop.
That man never got out of his car. He is described as Hispanic, 20 to 25, wi
th a short buzz haircut and a thin face. He was dressed as a construction wo
rker. He drove away in a "boxy" brown or gold-colored vehicle that may have
been an early 1990s model Nissan Sentra or Toyota.
The Castillos' shop was last robbed in 1993, according to a cursory check of
HPD records, Waters said.
The Castillos also run a second business on the weekend at a flea market on
Telephone Road, East End residents said.
Eva Castillo remained at the hospital with her husband Thursday night. The c
ouple's son, who stayed at the jewelry shop talking to police, declined to s
peak with the media. |
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