Family of Masked & Armed Man Killed While Committing a Robbery Say He Was Shot Too Many Times
The Chicago family of Reginald Gildersleeve, who was killed by a legal concealed gun owner, while attempting to commit armed robbery at the Chicago bodega Agencia Mexicana, want charges to be brought against the legal gun owner, because they say that the robbery may have been a “Halloween prank” gone wrong, and also say that Mr. Gildersleeve was shot too many times.
“Some people don’t actually know how to use guns. They go to firing ranges, but it’s not the same as a bullet going into someone’s body, it’s not the same as a bullet going into flesh. They should be able to wound first, kill next. He didn’t deserve to get shot multiple times.”
Legal gun owners go to the shooting range, so that if they are put in a position where they have to defend their lives with their gun, that they can do so without putting themselves or others in harms way. For gun owners who train with their weapon, the only person who will be shot is the person they mean to shoot.
“You just took a brother, you just took a father from a lot of people. Somebody’s got to answer for that”
Someone already did answer for the armed robbery attempt – Reginald Gildersleeve paid the ultimate price for his violent crime.
If the criminal, Reginald Gildersleeve, wasn’t committing armed robbery, then yes, I would agree that the shooter should be charged, but the shooter acted lawfully when he took the life of the armed and masked criminal. But Reginald Gildersleeve was not caught up in a “Halloween prank” gone wrong. Reginald Gildersleeve was masked and armed, while trying to rob the bodega Agencia Mexicana.
It also doesn’t matter that the gun that Reginald Gildersleeve was using was actually a paintball gun. If you are using a fake gun to commit robbery, then you deserve to be shot the same as if you were holding a real firearm. The person protecting himself, the store and it’s customers, don’t need to determine if the criminal is holding a real gun or a fake gun before defending himself.
If the family of the dead criminal is upset, they should be upset at Reginald Gildersleeve, for acting like a violent criminal, and causing someone else to change their whole life by being forced to react in self-defence to the crime being committed by Mr. Gildersleeve.
The family of a Chicago man gunned down during a robbery attempt are calling for his shooter, a concealed weapon permit-holder, to be prosecuted for the shooting. The Washington Post is helping to further that effort, suggesting the failed robbery could even be a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong.
Police say Saturday night Reginald Gildersleeve walked into the small bodega Agencia Mexicana while wearing a mask and announced a holdup, whipping out what appeared to be gun. Moments later he was gunned down by an unnamed patron. It was later discovered that Gildersleeve’s gun was a paintball gun. (RELATED: Chicago Man With Concealed Carry Permit Shoots And Kills Armed Robber)
Chicago police are treating the case as rather open-and-shut. Even if Gildersleeve wasn’t carrying a real gun, he was brandishing like it was, and the shooter acted accordingly.
But now, Gildersleeve’s family is calling for charges to be levied, saying that the habitual criminal didn’t deserve to die. Igbinosa Oronsaye, Gildersleeve’s stepson, told The Chicago Tribune the shooter overreacted in shooting multiple times.
“Some people don’t actually know how to use guns,” Oronsaye said. “They go to firing ranges, but it’s not the same as a bullet going into someone’s body, it’s not the same as a bullet going into flesh. They should be able to wound first, kill next. He didn’t deserve to get shot multiple times.”
Oronsaye also said the shooter needed to be punished for killing a member of the community.
“You just took a brother, you just took a father from a lot of people. Somebody’s got to answer for that,” he said.
The family’s argument is being pushed along by The Washington Post, where writer Michael Miller says the shooting is “raising questions.” Miller wrote up Gildersleeve’s death Monday morning in a manner that seems intended to frame Gildersleeve in the best possible light. Miller, for instance, describes the shooting as “mysterious” because it “occurred on Halloween and involved a man in a mask with a fake gun,” although robberies with fake guns happen all the time.
Miller then says the robbery was all one big misunderstanding, because Gildersleeve was reportedly a former employee of Agencia Mexicana and knew the owner.
“Was the shooting a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong?” he asks.
Miller’s article also opens with a 2011 picture taken from Gildersleeve’s Facebook, showing him standing with his wife and holding a Bible. He describes Gildersleeve trying to “turn his life around,” based mostly on his marriage and his posting of family photos and inspirational quotes on Facebook. He even describes Gildersleeve as being “gunned down” during the robbery by a “concealed-weapon-toting customer,” although the phrased “gunned down” is typically used for those shot while doing nothing wrong.
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