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Little Caesars employee allegedly shoots, kills man in clown mask outside store
Little Caesars employee allegedly shoots, kills man in clown mask outside store
An employee closing up shop at a Little Caesars restaurant in Florida on Saturday night shot and killed a man in a clown mask after he was attacked with a wooden post, according to authorities.
Police in Holly Hill, Florida, said the employee exited the back door of the pizza place just before midnight when a man in a grotesque clown mask jumped him with a wooden post. According to the police report, the post broke over the man's back, upon which the attacker tried to stab the employee with a pair of scissors.
The victim responded by pulling out his concealed firearm and firing "four or five shots" at the attacker, according to the police report. When authorities responded, the attacker was found lying in the parking lot with the mask still on and scissors by his body, police said.
He was taken to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach where he was pronounced dead.
Video: https://abcn.ws/2IPghqF
An employee closing up shop at a Little Caesars restaurant in Florida on Saturday night shot and killed a man in a clown mask after he was attacked with a wooden post, according to authorities.
Police in Holly Hill, Florida, said the employee exited the back door of the pizza place just before midnight when a man in a grotesque clown mask jumped him with a wooden post. According to the police report, the post broke over the man's back, upon which the attacker tried to stab the employee with a pair of scissors.
The victim responded by pulling out his concealed firearm and firing "four or five shots" at the attacker, according to the police report. When authorities responded, the attacker was found lying in the parking lot with the mask still on and scissors by his body, police said.
He was taken to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach where he was pronounced dead.
Video: https://abcn.ws/2IPghqF
https://abcnews.go.com/US/caesars-employee-allegedly-shoots-kills-man-clown-mask/story?id=55483144
Self defense or vigilantism?
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It's easy in hindsight to wonder if he needed 4-5 shots if one would have been sufficient to wound the assailant. Likely that being attacked like that kicked in the adrenaline. Hard to call it overshooting and hard to call it vigilantism. Doesn't look like the Little Caesar's guy was out looking for a fight at he existed.
I'm not usually a fan of CC and worry about over-defense but this one feels righteous.
IMHO...open to see if different if there's new data on the table.
...armed up by strapping on a gun or two ahead of time planning to kill the first person who he thought might be attacking him, I'm gonna say vigilantism. I mean it's not like he had a protection order or was a politician or even just popular celebrity who might be the object of a stalker.
Really? It astounds me. The judge, jury, executioner types that think it's somehow heinous to prepare for self-defense with a tool that isn't the equivalent of a can of beans.
A 220 grain .30-06 is around a half ounce IIRC. 
