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Man charged with murder of co-defendant in self-defense shooting outside Lakeland restaurant
By Carla Bayron
LAKELAND, Fla. – The co-defendant of a man who died in a shooting that police claim was self-defense will remain in jail on no bond.Nicholas Lue, 27, of West Palm Beach made his first appearance in Polk County court on Friday afternoon.
The shooting happened just outside Calirose 15 Kitchen on April 24.
The victim, a 24-year-old man, was at the restaurant to celebrate his mom’s birthday.
He told police he walked outside to smoke a cigarette when Lue and Banks confronted him, asking, “Where is [redacted] at?”
According to Lue’s arrest affidavit, Lue and Banks are gang members and the victim saw both had a gun in their waistbands.
The victim told police Banks punched him in the face and knocked him backwards.
Someone came out of the restaurant to help the victim, but Banks then told that person, “They were going to both die tonight.”
Police say Banks struck that person in the face, and Lue pointed his gun at them.
The victim, who was in fear for the other person’s life, took out his own gun from his waistband and fired shots.
Both Lue and Banks were hit, though Banks later died from his injuries at the hospital.
Police say the shooting was in self-defense because Lue and Banks instigated the argument and, under Florida law, it means that Lue can be charged in Banks’ death.
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Wrong victim, as “Wheels” Lue discovered.
Owner of Snowflake Donuts Fatally Shoots Armed Robbery Suspect
Brandon Curtis
HOUSTON, TX (3-minute read) — An attempted armed robbery at a Houston donut shop turned deadly early Thursday morning when the store owner fatally shot the suspect in an apparent act of self-defense.The incident took place around 6:15 a.m. at Snowflake Donuts on Winkler Drive, just off the Gulf Freeway. According to Houston Police, the suspect—dressed in dark clothing and armed with a firearm—entered the store intending to commit a robbery. Moments later, the shop owner, who was also armed, shot the intruder.
When police arrived just after 6:20 a.m., they found the suspect dead inside the store. Officers recovered the suspect’s firearm and found the cash register open, suggesting an active robbery had been underway.
“This is a busy place… people getting donuts or kolaches before they head to work or school,” noted HPD Detective Socrates Trujillo. “It could have ended very differently, where innocent civilians could have been shot and injured.”
While the case is still under investigation, authorities said the store owner is not facing charges at this time.
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Concealed Nation
Snowflake, donuts and the Po-Po- there’s a joke just waiting right there. Glad the only one shot was the suspect.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
— Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Oh, how cute.
is that a Taurus 22TUC tucked in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?
Taurus has always had that weird S&W (revolver) and Beretta (semi-auto) clone dynamic going on. It makes sense, in the ’70s, Taurus and S&W were owned by the same company, and in the early ’80s, the company bought the Beretta plant in Brazil and got all of the tooling and technical packages to make near-copies of the Italian-designed guns.
The gangbanger wasn’t supposed to end up this way, sitting in a wheelchair facing murder charges for the death of his dead homie. It was supposed to be a quick intimidation job to locate their person of interest, and at worst, the victim and third party should have been left bleeding out on the ground, while Lue and Banks got their smoke on over a couple of 40s.
A donut shop… I’m not sure how much money they have on site, though if it’s popular enough with cash customers, one might be a lucrative target.
A couple of things I’ve found working my job is that a) the amount of cash that some fast-food restaurants and gas stations can amass in a few days is impressive, and b) the safes most use make robbing them pointless (so long as proper cash drop procedures are followed). I like the automated safes my company provides, as it makes life extremely easy. We have contracts with most of the big fast-food chains and one of the largest convenience store chains around here. Unless we have cash for the customer, we simply walk in, put in our code and combination (requiring a scanner that provides a one-time use code specific to the safe and the employee granted access to it), bag and scan in the cash, and walk out, all in well under five minutes. Some other businesses require us to provide a second key and work with a manager. In either case, an attempted robbery will net the cash from the tills, and maybe a bullet or two for your trouble if you mess with the independently owned stores.
Sold a gun once to a guy who owned the only bar in a college town. All-girls school, too. Two things he was rolling in, and one was money.
First story reminded me of Dan Rather. “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”
Our little music shop tries to only keep $200 – but one big cash purchase can put us way up there.
I keep my pistol handy – and don’t bother deep concealing that I’m packing. A bulge can be a warning.
Looks like a hole in one at the donut place. A Florida Snowflake is a Snowbird that visits her/his home at different times all year round.