New Mexico Man fends off carjacker.

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Here is a link to a story in Albuquerque. A gunman carjacked a pick-up from a family. He stopped and attempted to car-jack a second car. The second victim's four year old was in the car, and the victim, being armed, opend fire. The BG was wounded, but unfortunantely, the victim has been critically wounded (as of last night).

http://www.krqe.com/expanded.asp?ID=20367
 
I have been trying to find out more details on this so as to post-mortem it for my own benefit. Both locations are in my regular travels, and even though the Walgreens Drug Store does sometimes have some panhandlers in the parking lot I have never "gone red" at either place.
 
"The alleged carjacker..."

It's a jounalism thing. You are innocent until proven guilty. Until he is tried and convicted, he is alleged to have done it. Saves the newspaper from a lawsuit.
 
So why wasn't the "alleged" carjacker "allegedly" shot by the second "alleged" victim who he "allegedly" shot?

If anybody deserves "allegedly", I think everybody does.


--Travis--
 
It has to do with if the carjacker is found not guilty, he has cause for a lawsuit for libel/slander against the paper. It's the way it was taught in Journalism 101 in college, and what I had to deal with as a copy editor/copy chief in college. Getting off topic anyway, just trying to clarify the journalists responsibility.
 
just trying to clarify the journalists responsibility.
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I guess those last two words do ultimately refer to selling papers and not costing the paper money.
 
romma said:
Let's have hope and prayers and best wishes for the victim to pull through here folks...
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Definitely. There's a better good to be had than just the BG getting caught. After all, survival is what this is all about.
 
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