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HPD: Security guard shoots suspect during armored van robbery attempt on Westheimer
According to Houston police, the suspects pepper-sprayed a guard before the shooting.
Author: Orko Manna
HOUSTON — The search continued into Thursday evening for the people who tried to rob an armored van outside a west Houston bank.According to police, a security guard shot one of the suspects after being pepper-sprayed.
It happened just before noon on Westheimer Road near Hillcroft Avenue.
The suspect who was shot was taken to an area hospital but surveillance video showed the other suspects getting into a vehicle and leaving the scene.
As of 5 p.m., they were still on the run.
“This is a traumatic event. This is not something that occurs every day,” Houston Police Department Lt. Terry Horton said.
It unfolded near an ATM at the Bank of America at the address above. Police said the armored van showed up at the bank around 11:45 a.m. to collect cash from an ATM. That’s when, police said, a group of suspects ambushed the female driver and the male security guard.
“One of the suspects sprayed him (the security guard) with pepper spray and then the security guard returned fire … because they were trying to rob him … and shot one of the suspects,” Horton said.
Mace and bullet shells were seen on the ground at the bank. Clothes worn by the suspect who was shot were also on the ground by the ATM.
“During the actual event, they (paramedics) had to go ahead and remove it (suspect’s clothes) so they could access, the paramedics could access and treat the wound at the scene,” Horton said.
He was taken to an area hospital and his condition was unknown at last check.
Investigators think the suspects might have known the armored van would be there at the time.
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KHOU!
Some mighty fine Po-Po investigatin’ and KHOU is there.
KNOXVILLE CAR BURGLAR GETS SHOT BY BYSTANDER
Knoxville Police Department detectives are investigating a shooting that happened early Thursday morning in the area of E. Magnolia Avenue and Morgan Street.
At around 6:15 a.m. on Thursday, January 23, 2025, KPD officers responded to 200 E. Magnolia Avenue, where 43-year-old Travis Bullock had been shot. Bullock was transported to the UT Medical Center with injuries that are not expected to be life threatening.
The investigation revealed that Bullock smashed out the window of a car with a golf club near Knox Rail Salvage. A 24-year-old man heard the car window being smashed and confronted Bullock. Bullock then allegedly struck the man who intervened in the vehicle burglary with the golf club, and the man then shot Bullock.
Bullock ran from the area after he was shot but was detained by officers a short distance away from the scene of the shooting.
Charges are pending on Bullock related to the vehicle burglary and assault on the individual who shot him.
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Not enough club? Pepper spray and golf clubs don’t work well in gun fights either, surprise. Thanks, Gun Bunny.
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Ya done good today, Gun Bunny. Thank you.
Pepper spray and a golf club to a gunfight.
I see two new entries to the 3″ three ring loose leaf binder set of T2NB2AGF.
The perps a-salt-ed the security guard with pepper spray. I guess that makes the guard well seasoned.
Well done on the shooting through the tears.
Looks like the guy with the gun made his own hole-in-one. Did Bullock get shot in the buttock?
Aw shucks (kicks rock), Tox. Mighty kind of you. I figured you’d like a coupla additions for the T2NB2AGF binder. Even better that Chimpy has finally figured out (after numerous times) what that means. The FGS hunt is hit and miss of late, despite the fact that there are somewhere north of 1.5 million cases a year of folks defending themselves. KHOU was a daily go to (still is) and one could generally find some stuff there, however Click2 Houston and ABC13 leads the way now. The reporting of FGS has gotten almost as bad as some of these “investigations”. GVA is a go to source for quick checks but I find most of them by punching in “Bing Local” for the usual cities where the “usual suspects” hang out. Goes from famine to feast and our Beloved AW1Ed will thin the ration somewhat just to try and have a little something everyday. We also have to flip a coin now and again as to whether it’s a FGS or a SPoTW Thread. *sigh*
I am not scared to show my strength and intelligence to defend freedom.
If one MUST carry a 9mm, then it should be a version of HMS, JMB (HBHN) Hi-Power design. And no…I don’t have a likeness tatted on my bod, nor do I have a life-sized picture of St John fastened to the ceiling above my bed.
Oops…duty calls. Better hie meself off to my meeting. Y’all try to play nice while I’m gone. And DO NOT trash The Throne Room…OAM may stop by and it took the combined efforts of AH and I almost two (2) full weeks to clean up the mess that Mr. Stone left it in. Sheesh!
Concur on the 9mm piece:
We started getting the Springfield Hi-Powers (SA-35) in during my last year of working retail. We also had a used FN version that sat on the shelf for a while before finally going home with a customer. I’ve yet to own a Hi-Power… maybe one of these days.
Houston has recently been a hotbed of attempted and successful armored car and ATM robberies. Without going into too much detail, our routes are always extremely random. We don’t have set drivers or messengers (jumpers) for routes, and each day the route is ran at the discretion of those driving it, with input from the jumper if they want to feel special. I’m getting familiar with some of our routes, especially out in Acadiana and locally. Just yesterday, I got to drive the backroads through the Atchafalaya Basin before hitting I-10 to finish the route.
The vans are often one person gigs, based on my observations from my employer and other companies (the article said this one had a driver and a jumper, though). I can see where a tenured employee familiar with the routes might get into a pattern, made worse by the fact that he or she are Lone Wolfing it throughout the day. Watching footage of many of the ATM robberies, the single-person vans seem to be a priority target. It’s easy to let complacency take over when you’re making 200+ stops a week without incident.
I’m still living the life of a rookie, often being assigned to drive over actually getting out and moving cash. Eight to twelve hours in the truck sees me barely able to walk by the time we get back, and I’m developing an iron ass that would make some bikers proud (wait, that could be taken out of context), but on the flip side, jumping in and out sees me feeling every bit of my disability rating. It’s a decent paycheck, with a lot of overtime, but there’s definitely some risk, and it can be physically demanding at times, especially when moving a lot of coin.
I retired from Brink’s Armored in NYC back in 2007 with 37 years under my belt. We started with 3 man crews and then when the industry was de regulated, we lost a few large accounts from other companies that went to 2 man crews. the 4 companies before de regulation were US Trucking which merged with Brink’s, Wells Fargo and Cross Armoured which left 3 companies after the merger. I started in 1970 with The Green trucks US Trucking then we went over to the gray colored Brink’s trucks. We didn’t have A/C in the trucks for years untill we finally got them A/C’d. The older US trucks had the front windshield collapse about 3 inches so when driving, we got some air into the cab. Heaters didn’t put hardly any heat out so we used to set newspapers on fire in the door well. Was issued a S&W pencil barrel 4in. .38. and there were guys with Colt 4in pencil barrel Police positives tapered .38 rounds. Later on I got the S&W 4in. bull barrel. Had that till 9/11 then everything was the S&W Mod. 4046 4in. barrel in .40. After I retired, they went to another S&W model. I went through the “war’ years where we lost a number of people when chesimard and her ilk were hitting the armoured cars. Problems up in Canada when the frenchies were hitting the trucks to support their failed attempt from ceceding from Canada.
Late-’50s/early-’60s Hi Power made for the American market or one of the bunch Saddam ordered from FN for Iraq?