Hartford woman thwarts attack with CCW

[ACP]

January 14, 2015, 1:19 PM

HARTFORD — A woman shot a would-be armed robber in the North End early Wednesday, police said.

The shooting happened shortly before 1:30 a.m. in a building at 180 Earle St., Sgt. Steven Kneeland said.

According to Kneeland, police were flagged down and told that two men — one armed with a rifle — tried to rob two people in a hallway.

A female victim took a handgun from her purse and fired at one of the men, shooting him in his arm, Kneeland said.

At the same time police were being flagged down, one of the would-be robbers showed up at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center to be treated for a gunshot wound to the arm.

The rifle turned out to be a BB gun, Kneeland said.

The woman had a pistol permit , he said.

 

[Phaedrus/69]

Good for her! Crime is a risky business.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Looks like another case of stupid posturing with the threat of violence that totally backfired on the perps.

Good on the lady!

 

[skoro]

It's not wise to take a bb gun to a gunfight.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

It's not wise to take a bb gun to a gunfight.

Not only that, it's not wise to INITIATE a gunfight with a BB gun.

 

[rondog]

Was this Hartford, CT?

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

^^^

Apparently.

There is a 180 Earle St. in Hartford, CT, and it is in the North End.

 

[toivo]

The North End doesn't sound like a very nice place ...

http://www.virtualtourist.com/trave...8825/Warnings_or_Dangers-Hartford-TG-C-1.html

 

[rondog]

Nice place. My stepson and his wife live in some suburb near Hartford.

 

[N003k]

I was actually at work and listening to a police scanner when this happened. It is indeed Hartford Connecticut.

And no Tolvo, the North End isn't that nice. It's the worst part of the pretty eh city that is Hartford.

Though the suburbs can be nice. West Hartford is very nice town for example.

 

[Mainsail]

I grew up outside Hartford in the 70s and 80s, the North End of Hartford was totally ghetto, and one didn't venture there.

I wonder what expensive tactical course the victim attended, and what super-gun with six back-up magazines she was carrying. You know, what with the conventional wisdom around here that those are absolute necessities to survive an armed encounter.

 

[Fred Fuller]

what with the conventional wisdom around here that those are absolute necessities to survive an armed encounter.

Hardly the case.

We support and encourage training, yes. No two ways about it. That's what this subforum is HERE for after all.

But good people have died for lack of training. People with functional, loaded firearms at hand who for whatever reason failed to be able to use them effectively.

Good people have also prevailed with absolutely no training beyond how to load and fire the firearm they had at hand. I know of two cases where people with no more instruction than those basics killed their assailants with literally the first shot they ever fired in their lives.

And people who have had good training have died in gunfights despite their training. The recent case in Shawnee, KS comes to mind.

If it were only as simple as "conventional wisdom" ...