Police have determined no charges are warranted in a West Jackson, Miss., defensive shooting in which a man chased and attempted to attack the owner of Big Boy’s Convenient Store before the owner fired his handgun, killing the man.
Musa Ali Ghna told WLBT 3, said he has not been the same since the incident and, while he has dealt with violence before, he never had to defend himself to the point where he was forced to take another person’s life.
The man walked into the store, knife in hand and approached Ghna, whose back was turned toward the entrance.
“As soon as I looked at him, he just took the knife and chased me in the store…soon as he looked by the door, right there, the knife in his hand, telling me ‘I will kill you right now,’” Ghna said.
Ghna attempted to flee, but the man closed on him as the store owner made his way to the door.
“As soon as I saw the knife came up right there close to my stomach, I was trying to hit him with the gun, the gun right there popped up,” Ghna told the station.
The entire incident was captured on security camera video. Ghna can be seen pulling his gun as he gets to the door and turns around. The unidentified man swipes at him with the knife and Ghna can be seen aiming and firing a shot.
It was not the first time Ghna had dealt with the man. In fact, each of the previous three days, the man had come into the store throwing merchandise on the store and damaging property.
Police took Ghna in for questioning following the incident but realized him saying his defensive actions were clearly justified.
Why didn’t they take the guy he shot in the first two times?
Glad this guy escaped with his life. Hope he figures out how to sleep at night.
“Hope he figures out how to sleep at night.”
it can be a little tough at first, but he will figure it out. But its different for people.
I’ve been through it several times. My first time I didn’t sleep for a few days. The time I had to do it to save my wife, I didn’t sleep for few days. The other times, I slept fine.
I would have shot the suspect much more quickly than the victim did. I’m much more afraid of a knife than a firearm. I’ve seen two men disemboweled and many others cut to ribbons. Knife wounds can be ugly. I once read that it was legal to carry a Colt’s Navy Revolver in Memphis, TN, but illegal to carry a Bowie knife back in the day. Take that for what it’s worth.
“I would have shot the suspect much more quickly than the victim did. I’m much more afraid of a knife than a firearm.”
You and me both, Strych9 has expressed similar sentiment. I carry a pocket knife clipped in my pocket, but I’m no knife-fighter. That blade is just a tool for me…
Have you seen the news about the river rafting incident where a guy went back for his wifes’ phone, and a crowd of 19 – 21 ish got stirred up to attack him?
He either took away a pocket knife from one kid or had a small one of his own, but, he cut up 5 of the kids who attacked him pretty bad and one did die. And people poo pooh the 21 foot rule..
Not sure how it’s all going to wash out in court at this point though.
The States enacting laws against the credit card MCC codes for gun purchase must be getting the Marxist Soci – alist upset.
Warren Undeterred & DEMANDS That Gun Purchase Codes Be FORCED On Banks By Federal Government…
I can hear the dimocrats now … Why didn’t he just shoot the knife out of his hand?!
From “experts” who couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn from the inside.
It’s the ignorance of the families, wanting to take revenge, knowing the cretin was totally wrong, that really pisses me off.
Should be a law that if you start something and someone rebounds with a death or incapacitation defense that there is no recourse and no court.
Jackson is a cesspool. I try to make my trips there and through there as brief as absolutely possible.
Jackson Ms is a cesspool because its population is ~83 % Black or African American and their ‘community leaders’ let it be that way.
The store owner should have waited until he actually suffered grievous bodily harm. A “swing and a miss” doesn’t count. Besides a gun vs. a knife is a first class indication of “disparity of force” by the person with the gun.
Oh, and using a gun against a knife holder is not an example of “turning the other cheek”, or walking two miles vs. only one.
If nobody has guns, gun violence would be impossible. Law is the root cause of all crime; no law, no crime.
you win the interwebz sarcasm award.