BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
NOVEMBER 19, 2023
LaShawn Craig, 45, a train operator for the NYC subway, Army veteran with multiple deployments and a landlord renting out his Brooklyn brownstone house returned home to find that an extremely agitated and violent previous tenant, an ex convict named Timothy Jones who has a history of violent incidents, had broken into his section of the house and immediately started threatening Craig upon being confronted. When Jones pulled a pistol-like object out of his pocket during the verbal exchange, Craig drew an unlicensed .40 caliber Smith and Wesson handgun and fired several shots, fatally striking Jones in the torso. The pistol-like weapon which Jones had brandished was later found to be a Taser by the police. After shooting Jones, Craig called 911 and gave responding officers his gun. Homicide charges were not filed as the case was already ruled a justified defensive shooting, but Craig, who has no prior criminal history, is now several facing charges of weapon possession and carrying an unlicensed handgun.
The MTA has also made a statement that Craig has been put on suspension after this incident. A judge, citing the nature of this shooting and the fact that Craig is an upstanding citizen with no criminal record, placed him on supervised release with no bail while a date is being issued for his next court appearance over the gun charges.
If LaShawn Craig wants to, considering that even his employer, NYC Transit, had thrown him under the bus instead of supporting him, he and his legal defense CAN go all in during the upcoming trials and challenge NYC's unreasonable restrictions on gun ownership and probably even overturn the antigun bullshit which had victimized the residents of the city for over a century, a Mike Tyson haymaker straight to the jaw of the entities that are trying to railroad him, puns absolutely intended.
Depending on how this case proceeds in the future, this may become a 2nd Amendment Firemission if Mr. LaShawn Craig chooses to take on NYC's gun laws.
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NOVEMBER 19, 2023
LaShawn Craig, 45, a train operator for the NYC subway, Army veteran with multiple deployments and a landlord renting out his Brooklyn brownstone house returned home to find that an extremely agitated and violent previous tenant, an ex convict named Timothy Jones who has a history of violent incidents, had broken into his section of the house and immediately started threatening Craig upon being confronted. When Jones pulled a pistol-like object out of his pocket during the verbal exchange, Craig drew an unlicensed .40 caliber Smith and Wesson handgun and fired several shots, fatally striking Jones in the torso. The pistol-like weapon which Jones had brandished was later found to be a Taser by the police. After shooting Jones, Craig called 911 and gave responding officers his gun. Homicide charges were not filed as the case was already ruled a justified defensive shooting, but Craig, who has no prior criminal history, is now several facing charges of weapon possession and carrying an unlicensed handgun.
The MTA has also made a statement that Craig has been put on suspension after this incident. A judge, citing the nature of this shooting and the fact that Craig is an upstanding citizen with no criminal record, placed him on supervised release with no bail while a date is being issued for his next court appearance over the gun charges.
If LaShawn Craig wants to, considering that even his employer, NYC Transit, had thrown him under the bus instead of supporting him, he and his legal defense CAN go all in during the upcoming trials and challenge NYC's unreasonable restrictions on gun ownership and probably even overturn the antigun bullshit which had victimized the residents of the city for over a century, a Mike Tyson haymaker straight to the jaw of the entities that are trying to railroad him, puns absolutely intended.
Depending on how this case proceeds in the future, this may become a 2nd Amendment Firemission if Mr. LaShawn Craig chooses to take on NYC's gun laws.
MTA employee landlord fatally shoots tenant with illegal gun after breaking into NYC home: sources
LaShawn Craig, 45 – a train operator who has no prior arrests – fired multiple times outside his home on Pulaski Street near Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 9:40 p.m. Friday, fatal…
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