Houston Crime: Family Dollar store clerk shoots accused shoplifter 15 times, sentenced to 35 years

[horselightning]

Man sentenced to 35 years for killing accused shoplifter at Family Dollar

The Harris County District Attorney's Office announced Antonio Batres, 23, was sentenced on Friday to 35 years in prison for shooting a 49-year-old accused shoplifter, Troy Odom, in the back at a Family Dollar Store.

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Family Dollar store clerk sentenced for fatally shooting shoplifter in the back

After Antonio Batres pulled a gun on Troy Odom, he handed over the stolen motor oil. Then, as Odom left the store, Batres shot and killed him.

www.khou.com

mexican dude shot the black dude for stealing from him;./ looks like both of them got there dues. dude was robbing the wrong guy in houston.

 

[Muhammed]

argument turned into a physical fight as Odom tried to go out the front door, which an employee locked to keep him from leaving. The fight continued as the two men scuffled on the floor as Odom tried to leave.


Officials say the video surveillance showed that Batres pulled a semi-automatic firearm on Odom during the fight, after which he emptied his pockets and returned the motor oil. After the front doors were unlocked, Odom left the store.

As he was walking away, Batres followed him out and shot him in the back on the sidewalk in front of the store, according to authorities.

The first shot caused Odom to turn around and Batres unloaded a total of 12 shots, hitting Odom in his arms, legs and torso as he raised his arms to defend himself.

You can't shoot someone just because you're pissed off at them!

 

[White 6]

Man sentenced to 35 years for killing accused shoplifter at Family Dollar

The Harris County District Attorney's Office announced Antonio Batres, 23, was sentenced on Friday to 35 years in prison for shooting a 49-year-old accused shoplifter, Troy Odom, in the back at a Family Dollar Store.

www.fox26houston.com

Family Dollar store clerk sentenced for fatally shooting shoplifter in the back

After Antonio Batres pulled a gun on Troy Odom, he handed over the stolen motor oil. Then, as Odom left the store, Batres shot and killed him.

www.khou.com

mexican dude shot the black dude for stealing from him;./ looks like both of them got there dues. dude was robbing the wrong guy in houston.

If he was allowed to walk out the door, without stolen merchandise, 23 year-old Batres simply decided to go outside and murder the hell out of him, so now doing his next 35 years in prison. I guess he may be 58 when he gets out, with nothing but convenience store clerking and prison on his resume. Sucks to be him, but his choice. I wonder if he will think it was worth it? But, hey! He got the store motor oil back, before he went nuts. Maybe the store will hire him back?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Took 15 shots?
He needs to be sentenced to 35 years at the nearest firing range.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I wonder if the worker still would've been charged if the guy had been shot once or twice.

God bless you and the victim's family always!!!

Holly

 

[MAGA Macho Man]

Took 15 shots?
He needs to be sentenced to 35 years at the nearest firing range.

No shit! Lol

 

[drudge X]

lol…two bullshit statements in one paragraph.

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said."Gun violence in Harris County is out of control because of situations like this in which someone thinks they can take a life because they are mad," Ogg said. "The victim in this case had a family and was loved, and he should still be with us today."

 

[Natural Citizen]

It's all in the eyes.

Always...

Give a sociopath a gun and all a sudden he wants to be a cowboy.

 

[DudleySmith]

Don't feel sorry for either one. This is going to get a lot more common as the two 'minorities' conduct a civil war with each other, courtesy of Biden and his fellow Democrats.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

I wonder if the worker still would've been charged if the guy had been shot once or twice.

God bless you and the victim's family always!!!

Holly

Probably because shooting someone in the back is not lawful, not even for the police with very few exceptions.

 

[Esdraelon]

It's all in the eyes.

Always...

Yep, not a bit of conscience there at all.

 

[Esdraelon]

Probably because shooting someone in the back is not lawful, not even for the police with very few exceptions.

A cop up in North Charleston, SC learned that a few years back. He shot a runner several times in the back. The runner's offense? Delinquent child support or alimony.

 

[DudleySmith]

Actually 'street justice' demands they kill each other over such minor things; it's about 'respect', and it is not unlikely the thief would come back with friends and do the clerk in if allowed to leave. don't know where this store was located, but I would bet it was in Gangland. I would bet threats were made and taken seriously, as they should have been. This is what anarchy promotes.

 

[noonereal]

You can't shoot someone just because you're pissed off at them!

But we all need a gun!

 

[BackAgain]

It doesn’t sound like a justified use of deadly physical force. Not by a long shot.

The deceased should be alive and behind bars.

The shooter is probably where he is supposed to be at this point.

 

[Crepitus]

I wonder if the worker still would've been charged if the guy had been shot once or twice.

God bless you and the victim's family always!!!

Holly

In the back after the altercation had ended and he was allowed to leave?

It would still have been murder.

 

[Mac-7]

If he was allowed to walk out the door, without stolen merchandise, 23 year-old Batres simply decided to go outside and murder the hell out of him, so now doing his next 35 years in prison. I guess he may be 58 when he gets out, with nothing but convenience store clerking and prison on his resume. Sucks to be him, but his choice. I wonder if he will think it was worth it? But, hey! He got the store motor oil back, before he went nuts. Maybe the store will hire him back?

Of course Batres was wrong and deserves to go to prison

There is a lot of crime in the hood and it often leads to violence

The legal system needs to take stronger action against criminals so that private citizens wont take the law in their own hands

 

[initforme]

Need that stuff that bad? Then take it. As an employee that'd be my mantra. Not my job to be a security worker and floor worker.

 

[Batcat]

I wonder if the worker still would've been charged if the guy had been shot once or twice.

God bless you and the victim's family always!!!

Holly

In most states you have the right to defend yourself from an attacker who intends to put you in the hospital for an extended time or six feet under and has to ability and/or weapons to do so.

Once the attack ends, you no longer have any reason to continue to defend yourself. If he is incapacitated on the ground you can’t legally execute him. If the attacker runs and you chase him then he has the right to defend himself from the threat you pose to his life or health.

 

[Mac-7]

If the attacker runs and you chase him then he has the right to defend himself from the threat you pose to his life or health.

Lets not forget that a criminal contributed to his own death by stealing from the store