Comments

You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name

Your e-mail (optional)

Website (optional)

	My Original Nic Pic-a-Nic Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Foto

Submit your comments on this article

-Lurid Crime Tales-

NYC garage worker charged with attempted murder after shooting [by] armed thief

2023-04-02

[FoxNews] Moussa Diarra, 57, is charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon

A New York City parking garage attendant was hit with an attempted murder charge after confronting an armed thief and wrestling the gun away before opening fire on the suspect.

Moussa Diarra, 57, is also charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the incident that occurred at around 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning.

The attendant had observed a man looking into cars on the second floor of the West 31st Street garage in Manhattan, police said, according to the New York Post. Diarra suspected the man was stealing, so he brought him outside and questioned him about what was inside his bag.

The man then pulled a gun on Diarra, who attempted to grab the firearm. The gun was fired, leaving Diarra with a shot to the stomach and grazed in the ear by a bullet.

Diarra proceeded to turn the firearm on the potential thief and shot him in the chest.

The alleged thief, 59-year-old Charles Rhodie, was also charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. He also faces a burglary charge, police said.

Diarra and Rhodie were transported to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition after Saturday's incident at the parking garage.

The charges against Diarra for defending himself against an attacker come after a similar incident last year. In July, Manhattan bodega clerk Jose Alba was charged with murder after a confrontation in the store with an angry customer who attacked him behind his counter. Alba stabbed and killed the attacker in self-defense but found himself at the Rikers Island jail charged with murder.

Posted by:Skidmark

#7 U-Turn for woke Alvin Bragg: DA will NOT prosecute a wounded NYC garage worker who shot a suspected thief with perps own gun and was then charged with attempted murder

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-04-02 22:42

#6 ^Where do the charges come from?

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-04-02 22:22

#5 No prosecutor even in Houston would be insane enough to try that. It'd never fly even in the center of Houston.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-04-02 19:49

#4 New York has a brand alright, and it ain't Wyatt Earp.

I want to be on Moussa's team. Bad-Ass.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-04-02 12:27

#3 I thought I was reading about some whacky case from Iran or some European or Canadian silliness. This is a shot victim turning the gun on an attacker in a gun controlled US city. Any person who goes into one of these Soros patrolled fun zones is surrendering all their Constitutional rights as they cross the border into squalid irrationality.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-04-02 12:09

#2 Need Wall Street firms to pull out of that sh!t hole lock, stock, and barrel, take their tax base with them, and just leave those animals to themselves.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-04-02 10:57

#1 Alvin Bragg's soft-on-crime policies scorched after Trump charges: Things have gotten 'progressively worse'

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-04-02 09:11

00:00