Good Guys 3, Bad Guys 0

Texans are still armed, and bad-guys are still getting shot. Witness shoots man attempting to steal luxury car at Dallas shopping center, affidavit says

In this case the bad guys were attempted to carjack someone in Dallas.

This incident happened way back in December, but the final arrest was only made on Friday, so the details of the investigation have been made public.

Dallas police say three people were leaving dinner at Odelay Tex-Mex when 21-year-old Lequezio Dade, 19-year-old Kylan Owens and 21-year-old Anthony Primers approached them.

According to an arrest affidavit, "Dade used a rifle held horizontally to violently shove one of the men backward while demanding the keys to his Maserati and his wallet."

One of the people with the driver of the Maserati was armed, and shot Lequezio Dade. He turned up at a local hospital with a story that cops, frankly, found stupidly unbelievable.

According to the affidavit, a geofence search warrant identified three cell phones present at both the shooting scene and hospital at times consistent with the investigation. Those phones belonged to Dade, Owens and Primers.

Hat tip to The Other McCain: Armed Self-Defense in Dallas

This attempted carjacking happened, as they say, “in an upscale area” on the north side of Dallas, which shows that there is no such thing as a “safe” neighborhood in 21st-century America. Who knows what might have happened had it not been for the fact that the Maserati owner’s friend was armed?

Or as I like to say, you are not protected by your Zip Code.