The Armed Citizen® May 9, 2025

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posted on May 9, 2025
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An armed robbery in Albuquerque, N.M., ended with a teen suspect being shot and killed by the driver of the vehicle he was attempting to rob, according to police reports.

Police say the victim and his wife were driving a blue Jeep shortly after midnight on January 29, when they were approached by a group of teens inside of a white vehicle. The suspects got out of the white car and approached the blue Jeep, which contained the driver and his wife. The suspect approached the passenger side, brandishing two guns. A second suspect, also armed with a gun, opened the rear passenger door. According to police reports, the victims "heard gunshots," prompting the driver to shoot back with his own concealed firearm.

A third suspect then entered the Jeep and began to fight with the armed driver, prompting him to put the Jeep into reverse and hit the white vehicle. The Jeep driver was then able to escape the scene of the ambush. The suspects fled the scene in their white vehicle and dropped off one wounded suspect at an area hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries. A second suspect was also treated for a gunshot wound. The Jeep driver's wife was also treated for non-life-threatening wounds from the incident. Police have charged six suspects in connection with the robbery. (KRQE News; Albuquerque, N.M.; 2/10/25)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives – February 1963

An Atlas, Ill., mother of five, Mrs. Frank Rodhouse, returned home with her four daughters to face a shotgun-armed intruder. The man herded them to an upstairs room, where he bound Mrs. Rodhouse.

Slipping her bonds when the man left the room, she obtained a .38-cal. pistol and three cartridges from a dresser drawer. Moving quietly downstairs, she got instructions from her 15-year-old son, who had also been bound, on how to load and fire the pistol.

Returning to an upstairs room, she found the man preparing to attack her 13-year-old daughter. Mrs. Rodhouse pointed the gun at him and fired three times. As the would-be attacker turned toward her with raised shotgun, he fell at her feet, mortally wounded. (Pike County Democrat Times, Atlas, Ill.)
 

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