Armed robber shot and killed in Omaha

[Gramps]

irishluck73 :
Thanks. I'm Damn glad I live where I do.

[Irish]

irishluck73 :
Thanks. I'm Damn glad I live where I do.

Too bad they got rid of "reasonable and prudent" where you live.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I wonder if a good lawyer would have been able to get him out of the OC/CC thing. Could anyone prove that you didn't have it OC, or prove that is was CC'ed? I wouldn't want to taint a good shoot with semantics about the draw though.

If he broke the law, hopefully he can get off easy on the CC charge, but the law is the law. I'm kind of a law-and-order Liberterian. I'd like less laws, but we'd better follow the ones we have.

Didn't have to add that they guy cried at the police station. Did they include that the robber cried for his momma and crapped himself?

[Irish]

http://www.omaha.com/article/2010042...ter-speaks-out

Harry James McCullough took it personally. The former security guard was standing at a Walgreens checkout counter when he saw two masked men, one with a sawed-off shotgun, enter the store. Marquail Thomas, 18, pointed the shotgun at customers and yelled, “Nobody (expletive) move!''

“There's no doubt in my mind what they were going to do,” McCullough said Thursday. “There was no time to react. You only have one chance.”

McCullough pulled out a pistol and shot Thomas four times. Thomas collapsed outside the store and died later at a hospital.

McCullough chased down the second masked man, whom Omaha police have identified as Angelo Douglas, 17, and held him until officers arrived. Jauvier Perkins, 15, who police said was the getaway driver, was arrested Wednesday.

Prosecutors said all three are known gang members.

McCullough said he had no idea whom he was dealing with.

“I took it personal,” he said. “I was the only one in that situation that could have made it any better, so I took action.”

McCullough said he never expected something like this to happen at his neighborhood drugstore, which he visits at least once a month to pick up a prescription for migraine headaches.

“I didn't have time to be scared,” he said. “It happened so quickly. You have to swell up and be bigger than your surroundings. If you portray yourself as big as a bear, you are a bear.”

McCullough will not be charged in the Monday night shooting, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine has said. McCullough was cited by police for carrying a concealed weapon. His attorney, James Martin Davis, said he will seek to have the ticket dismissed.

McCullough said he has had firearms training, shoots guns competitively and has had security jobs.

“I carry my gun everywhere I go. It's like my wallet,” he said. “It's a personal protection and a safety thing.”

He has a valid permit to carry a gun in plain view, typically in a holster. Police said he pulled the pistol from his waistband.

McCullough said he never applied for a state permit to carry a concealed weapon because it cost “extra money” and he felt that Omaha's carry permit was “sufficient.”
It's been a tough week for Harry James McCullough III, an Omaha native. He said he's shaky and hasn't been able to eat or sleep much, taking only catnaps. He said the thought of retaliation is “in the back of my mind,” so he doesn't stay at one place for a long period of time.

However, he said, he isn't going to change his life because of fears about what might happen. He plans to continue to carry a gun if he isn't convicted of a concealed weapons violation.

“I'm not going to sit in a corner and hide,” he said. “I'm going to live my life.”

McCullough appeared stoic and reserved during a nearly 30-minute press conference Thursday.

He said he has been interested in weapons since he was a child.

McCullough shot Thomas with a .40-caliber pistol. He said that the weapon can hold 15 rounds and that he remembers shooting four times Monday night.

The shotgun Thomas was carrying was unloaded.

Kleine said McCullough fired eight rounds, hitting Thomas four times.

Thomas was shot once in the right hand, once in the left arm, once in the middle of the chest and once in the lower back. Kleine said the wound to the back doesn't mean that McCullough shot Thomas as he was running away. He said the shots could have spun Thomas around.

Kleine said a bullet from the pistol was found inside the barrel of the shotgun, indicating that Thomas was aiming his gun at McCullough.

McCullough said he feels for Thomas' family, calling the shooting “unfortunate.'' But he felt he had to act.

“To me, he's just a robber in a mask,” he said. “I think the city has had enough of the crime.”

[Irish]

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/92532359.html

The Nebraska Firearms Owner Association has offered to buy a new handgun for the man who shot and killed a robbery suspect at an Omaha Walgreens.

Harry "James" McCullough, 32, said he's been overwhelmed by the support from people appreciative of his actions. On Monday, April 26th, he noticed two men, one of them armed with a shotgun, threaten the clerk and another customer at the Walgreens on 61st and NW Radial. That's when he shot the man 4-times, killing him. McCullough then held down the other suspect until police arrived. "You only have one chance," is what he told reporters on Thursday about his reaction.

McCullough who worked in corporate security shoots competitively twice a month at a local gun club. "I carry (my gun) everywhere. It's like a wallet."

Omaha Police have taken his gun, a Smith and Wesson 40-caliber, for the investigation. It may take months for him to get it back.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine determined the shooting was justified.

Andy Allen, President of the Nebraska Firearms Owner Association said on the website: "He needs a new carry gun, and the NFOA Board of Directors has made arrangements with an FFL member in the Omaha area to get another S&W for him at dealer cost. The Board has also offered to pay for this firearm for him, and request donations from our members to cover this expense. We had not intended to publicize this donation at this time, but Mr. McCullough thought we should be recognized for our efforts to help him continue to have a way to protect himself."

McCullough was ticketed for carrying concealed without a permit. Investigators say he had the proper paperwork to carry the gun out in the open but not concealed. McCullough says he carries it in his waistband.
Omaha city prosecutor Marty Conboy hasn't determined if there is enough evidence to charge him.

McCullough's attorney believes the citation should be dropped because of the lives he saved.

Andy Allen talked to Channel 6 News Friday. He tells us enough money has been promised to buy McCullough a gun. However, when McCullough went to OPD Headquarters Friday afternoon to apply for a permit to buy a new gun, his permit was denied. Allen says no reason was given by police for the denial.

[iwouldntknow]

I didn't really feel comfortable sharing the info on TOS, but I think it would probably be OK here. His youtube channel is str8shooterjim. I've shot with him at the 5.11 matches. He's a pretty good shot. We have another one coming up this Saturday, but i don't think he'll be there.

[wes007]

Someone must have watched the dynamic handgun dvd before they went to work All jokes aside ****ing awesome story. I'm glad 2 more scumbags are of the streets of America

[scottryan]

In Omaha, you need to have a permit from the city to open carry.

In the rest of Nebraska, you do not need a permit to open carry. No state issued permit exists for open carry in Nebraska. You just do it, if you want.

Nebraska also has a regular state issued concealed carry permit like most other states.

You also don't need a concealed carry permit in Nebraska to carry concealed if you have an "affirmative defense" such as transporting expensive or high risk items such as pharmaceuticals, large amounts of money, weaponry, etc. A restraining order against some violent person usually also qualifies.

[Abraxas]

You also don't need a concealed carry permit in Nebraska to carry concealed if you have an "affirmative defense" such as transporting expensive or high risk items such as pharmaceuticals, large amounts of money, weaponry, etc. A restraining order against some violent person usually also qualifies.

That's cool. Are you sure, sounds suspiciously like some politician was using some common sense?

[scottryan]

That's cool. Are you sure, sounds suspiciously like some politician was using some common sense?

If you are going to forgo the CCW permit and use the affirmative defense and get caught, you better have a good lawyer or be well connected in NE or else they might not consider your affirmative defense good enough.

Carrying around $500 of cash is not good enough.