Another Good Samaratan Shot

Pretty clear video of a college student who decided to intervene in a robbery/kidnapping and was shot for his trouble:

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/...5704821557255/480x270_3928765704821557255.mp4

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/...2873374692882/480x270_2841592873374692882.mp4

As you can see the Good Samaritan stopped his car next to the criminal's SUV and gets out to confront him. The criminal produces what appears to be a TEC 9 and shoots the Good Samaritan in the abdomen then tries to execute the Good Samaritan who is down on the pavement, but his weapon won't function.

It happened in New Orleans, LA. I should have posted a link to the complete article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-robbing-couple-gunpoint-24-hours-later.html

I'd like to remind everyone that this is the Strategies, Tactics and Training sub forum and that discussion of gun control is off topic here.

I posted the videos so we could discuss the things our Good Samaritan did that contributed to his poor outcome.

I think that we can probably safely say he jumped into a situation that he knew nothing about. It appears he saw the suspect dragging the unconscious female down the sidewalk. Think about this for a minute. It's 4 am in New Orleans. This could have been anything from a domestic dispute, to a boyfriend or husband trying to get a drunken partner back to the car and home. What did Mr. Gold know at the time he decided to intervene?

Neither video shows us how he initially confronted Cain. But he clearly intended to stop Cain from escaping by blocking his SUV in. It's hard to tell with the gaps in the video but it looks to me like Gold stopped a kidnapping and Cain may well have satisfied himself with woman's purse and left if Gold had not blocked him in.

I think the incident was over at 38 seconds into the second video when Cain got into his SUV with the purse and closed the door. If he could have driven off then he probably would have.

Gold was unarmed and depending on what? Good intentions? Had he not pulled up next to the SUV and jumped out this might have turned out a lot differently. I think made Cain feel he was trapped and was going to have to do something in order to escape.

Perhaps Gold didn't see that Cain had gotten into the SUV and closed the door. I don't know what he saw while he was driving up to the SUV. 10 seconds later and Cain would probably have been gone and Gold could have administered first aid to the owner. Had Gold driven past the SUV the same result.

If you are going to intervene, at least be smart about it. Don't corner someone who might be armed, if he had left Cain a way out, it probably would have worked out. He would have been able to give a good description of Cain and the police could have picked him up later, as they did.....

Gold parked right next to Cain's SUV in order to confront him. Yes, Cain did drive away after he got out of the SUV and shot Gold after attempting to rob him. Gold forced the confrontation. Cain was in the SUV with the door closed when Gold pulled up. Had Gold stopped before he reached the SUV or went past it and stopped, I think Cain would have driven away. He showed every indication that he was done with the action when he took the purse from the woman and got in the SUV.

Look at the first video. Gold drives past the street the confrontation occurs on, sees Cain dragging the girl down the sidewalk, puts his car into reverse, backs up and then drives down the street to confront Cain. At 18 seconds into the first video you can get a good look at how much room there is between Cain's SUV and the car parked in front of it. Now look at the location of the car parked on the other side of the street. I'm sure Cain had to think that Gold was trying to block him in.

Looking back at the first video. At 25 seconds Gold walks directly in front of the SUV, places his left hand on the hood and he's holding something, (Cell phone maybe?) in his right hand.

Unfortunately we don't see what happened next on either video. There is a gap on the second video and at 44 seconds we see Gold bent over the woman who is down on the sidewalk. At 45 seconds the door to the SUV opens and Cain exits the vehicle with the TEC-9.

You can't tell for sure from the gaps in the video, but it looks to be like Gold was looking for Cain, he drove down what appears to be a one way street from the wrong direction, parked in the driving lane next to the SUV in what looks like an attempt to block it in, then confronts Cain.

Educated guess on my part, but it certainly looks to me like Gold put himself in a position where Cain felt that he must deal with him or he wasn't going to escape. If Gold had simply pulled in front of the SUV that was parked in front of Cain and watched, there probably would have been a much better outcome. Or he could have driven past Cain's SUV and observed from there and that probably wouldn't have alerted Cain to the fact he was spotted.

The girl was down on the sidewalk and Cain was in the SUV with the door closed preparing to leave the scene when Gold confronted him. Gold had no idea what he was getting into and had no idea that Cain was armed.He charged in, didn't keep anything between himself and Cain and got shot for his trouble. He went from being in a position to aid the girl to becoming a victim himself because he didn't think through how he was going to handle the situation. Cain didn't need a gun, he could have come out of the SUV with a knife or an empty handed attack and Gold wasn't ready for it.

I disagree, Cain took her purse, got in the SUV and closed the door. I don't think that's the actions of someone who was going to do more harm to the woman.

Why do you get in your vehicle and close the door if you aren't going to drive away?

It could well be that Cain's crimes after he shot Gold were simply because he figured at that point he didn't have anything else to lose.

But here in ST&T we discuss how to handle situations like that. And it's quite obvious from the video that Gold had no idea what he was involving himself in and no idea how to confront a suspect even if his intervention had been warranted.

Gold was in way over his head and he's very lucky to be alive.