When a person does something crazy like committing a crime, normally they are held accountable for their irrational choices, no matter the reason or who they are. However, this isn’t the case for Adric White. After being shot while robbing a local Family Dollar store, his family wasn’t upset after hearing about his criminal antics. Shockingly, they had a response you wouldn’t believe.
The family of Adric White, an armed robbery suspect who allegedly held up a Mobile, Alabama, Family Dollar store in November, is speaking out against their son’s shooter.
White, 18, was shot five times after he allegedly tried to hold up a Family Dollar store in Mobile on Nov. 12. FOX10 spoke exclusively to both the unnamed Good Samaritan and the family members of White. They’re livid that their son was shot while pointing a gun in someone’s face.
“If [the customer’s] life was not in danger, if no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him – what gives him the right to think that it’s okay to just shoot someone?” a relative, who wished to remain anonymous, told FOX10. “You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.”
But when the suspect pulled out a gun at about 5:30 p.m., the Good Samaritan did too.
“He had the gun to his head. He had him on his knees,” said the Good Samaritan who had a legal permit for concealed carry, who wished to remain anonymous. “I drew my gun on him and I said ‘Hey don’t move.’ At that point he swung around and before he had a chance to aim the gun at me I fired. I didn’t want to shoot him.”
White didn’t listen. As the good Samaritan recalled, “At that point, he swung around, and before he had a chance to aim the gun at me, I fired.” Although he “didn’t want to shoot him,” the concealed carrying savior pumped out five rounds, dropping the would-be robber to the ground. Those five rounds struck White in undisclosed locations, and he was rushed to a nearby hospital to be treated for gunshot wounds.
Luckily for White, he survived, and while it’s understandable that parents and family members would be emotional had their child or loved one almost been killed, most would also be furious that their kid, who’s actually an adult and should know better, put themselves in that position.
Not Adric White’s family, though. They were furious alright, but not with White, who was already a repeat offender at that point. Instead, their anger lies with the good Samaritan who shot the robbery suspect.
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Sources: OpposingViews, Fox10