This doesn’t quite fit as one of our feel good stories, but it does have a happy ending for everyone. A Reading, PA man was at the local laundromat when 18-year-old Pablo D. Martinez Jr. entered with a sawed-off bolt action rifle;
The man handed over his wallet, which contained $60, and a cellphone, but Martinez came closer and ordered him to the ground. The man tried to knock the gun away but was shot in the side of the head as Martinez struggled with him.
The fight continued for several minutes before Martinez retreated. The man then drove to Reading Hospital.
So Martinez got his life turned around for him;
Martinez, 18, was charged with attempted homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, simple assault, theft and weapons-related charges. Police said they couldn’t find an address for Martinez.
Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.
If that joker would have had a semi-auto, it could have ended a lot worse for the victim of the assault. Glad the police were on it and arrested the vicious little punk.
Bury Pablo up to his neck by a fire ant mound…pour on the honey.
Pablo’s just doing a job Americans wouldn’t do.
“Police said they couldn’t find an address for Martinez.”
Suggestion to police: Visit “People Finder-Mexico.”
@2 I am with you all the way!
Who the hell saws off a rifle?
@6 Steve McQueen.
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Wanted:_Dead_or_Alive_%28TV_Series%29
Re: @7 Scroll down a bit to see the “Mare’s Leg”.
The sawed off rifle in Bounty Hunter, became the “Lever Action Pistol” aka “Mare’s Leg”:
http://www.henryrifles.com/rifle-mares-leg.cfm
Fortunately for the vic, the rifle was only a bolt action. What was it, a .22?
Too bad the victim couldn’t/didn’t get the rifle away from friend Pablo, beat him over the head & shoulders with it, then shove it up his ass.