Squirming around on the floor, and i said, you werent thinking about 911 when you were robbing me. This is the real deal. This is an automatic. Do not like automatics, and now i have to kill these guys. Caught on camera, armed and dangerous. Panic erupts when three masked gunman storm a restaurant, demanding cash and jewelry. Its all caught on surveillance cameras. Feel like, at one point, that i was going to die. All you got to do is pull the trigger and he was shot in the face. I felt more helpless than anything. April 23rd, 2011, houston, texas. Its just after 2 00 a. M. , and hungry partiers move to the 24hour waffle house to wind down the night. One of the partygoers Favorite Places to eat, so it gets full. Everybody at waffle house that night had come from a club. Thats what people usually do. Patrons just arrived for a latenight snack when three men burst in with guns. Surveillance cameras record the violent ordeal as it unfolds. We hadnt been there five minutes because we hadnt
Some New York businesses have posted signs welcoming customers with concealed carry permits in a protest of new state laws they say restrict their rights.
Some New York businesses have posted signs welcoming customers with concealed carry permits in a protest of new state laws they say restrict their rights.
automatic pistol. the gunman demands money, but fixler has no intention of giving in to his threats. the robbers don t realize it yet, but the unassuming shop keeper is not as defenseless as he appears. my brain went into, this is the real deal. this is an automatic. do not like automatics and now i got to kill these guys. i pushed the weapon out of my face, i bolted about eight, ten feet to where i have my revolver hidden, took it out of the holster and came up, pointed guns at each other and i just fired away. fixler aims at point-blank range and shoots both men in the chest. the dramatic moment is played out in front of the store s surveillance camera. as you view the surveillance tape, you could see him cursing, i ll kill you, i ll kill, i ll kill you. now he s mad at me. he probably thought i just ran to duck underneath the counter and a scaredy-cat, not knowing that i m armed.
in hand, standing in a defensive position and screaming at the man on the ground. i think he was in fear of his life. i think he believed at the time that they were going to shoot him. he just kept repeating that he couldn t believe that it happened to him. the man in the black coat who jumped into the getaway car is matthew ross. he s eventually captured, convicted of attempted robbery, and sentenced to ten years in prison. the man in the white hoodie, joseph nipper, is also convicted of attempted robbery but dies two years after the shooting from complications from his wounds. what ross and nipper didn t know that day is that fixler is a combat veteran who fought in vietnam and not the nerdy, easy target they expected. they probably figured i m the last guy to know how to use a weapon. fixler is not charged with any crime. he legally possessed the handgun he used. and with the help of the videotape, police determined he had the right to defend himself because he was in fear f