Armed man storms into fast food outlet - and pays with his life

Created: 01/10/2023 09:25

Video camera recording: The robber threatens the guests, after which a man draws his gun and shoots him.

© Houston Police Department

The police have released disturbing footage from a surveillance camera.

They show a robbery in an American fast food outlet - like in a western film.

Houston -- A masked robber stormed into a fast-food restaurant in the Texas US city and demanded money and valuables from every customer at gunpoint.

A deadly mistake.

Because one of the guests was armed himself.

Surveillance video released by the Houston Police Department shows the bald man shooting the robber four times in the back and then in the head.

According to police, the shooter then distributed the valuables back to the shocked restaurant patrons before calmly exiting and driving away in a 1970s pickup truck.

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When the emergency services arrived shortly thereafter, the robber was already dead. The police are now trying to locate the shooter - but only to question him as a witness.

His action is considered by the law to be pure self-defense.

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