The Armed Citizen® June 20, 2025

Armed Citizen® Today

A road-rage incident ended poorly for the aggressors, with one assailant dying of gunshot wounds when the victims defended themselves and the other facing a slew of criminal charges.

The situation began in the parking lot of an Albuquerque, N.M., Walmart when the driver of a black Dodge Charger got into an argument with the driver of a white pickup truck hauling a trailer. Two passengers, family members of the truck driver, were also involved. The verbal argument soon turned physical and then escalated when another vehicle pulled up to the scene, driven by the brother of the man in the Dodge Charger.

This suspect was armed with a handgun and pointed and fired it at the trio of men from the white pickup truck, all of whom sought cover behind a smaller truck nearby. The driver of the black Dodge Charger got back into his vehicle, made a U-turn and drove toward the three victims at a high rate of speed, pinning two of them against the smaller truck. The third victim managed to arm himself and, after the collision, ran to the side of the Dodge Charger and fired at the driver. The driver exited the Dodge Charger and ran toward the Walmart, but he collapsed from his wounds and died in the parking lot.

The other assailant ran up to the third victim and struck him with a handgun, and the two then began a hand-to-hand fight. Armed security officers from the nearby Walmart soon arrived and detained all the men until law enforcement arrived.

All three victims, including the two who were pinned between vehicles, were treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. According to police, the response from the three men in the white pickup truck is being handled as a possible justifiable homicide. The armed suspect, brother of the deceased road-rage suspect, has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of battery with a deadly weapon. (ABQ RAW News; Albuquerque, N.M.; 4/3/25)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives – August 1977

After her Cincinnati, Ohio, apartment was burglarized for the fifth time in a year, 52-year-old Evelyn Jackson decided to purchase a .32-cal. revolver. She got an opportunity to put it to use when a criminal broke in at 4 a.m. one Sunday morning. She ordered the man to halt; when he advanced instead, she shot him several times. (The Post, Cincinnati, Ohio)