Police investigating shooting inside Toledo restaurant

7:15pm Monday, March 22, 2004

March 22, 2004
13abc.com - WTVG Toledo

Robbery suspect shot several rounds into ceiling before getting away with woman's purse

Quite a scare for people at a West Toledo restaurant Sunday night. Toledo police say just before 8 p.m., an armed gunman walked into Jalapeno's at 519 N. Reynolds, shot a couple rounds in the ceiling and ordered everyone to the floor. Police tell us the gunman got away with a woman's purse, but they say someone may have found it later on Reynolds near Dorr.

Officers say no one was injured in the incident.

Commentary:
Aside from questions of extraordinary liability, how will restaurant owners feel the first time a criminal ignores a sign banning CHL-holders (or is in fact drawn to it) aware that his intended victims are unarmed?

How many Dr. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp's will it take to get these restauranteurs (or the lawyers advising them) to wake up? Suzanna - now a Texas State Representative - was forced to watch her parents lives be taken -along with 21 others - in the Luby's Restaurant rampage shooting in Kileen, TX because she was required by law to leave her firearm in her car.

The following restaurants have announced that they plan to post discriminatory signs and render their patrons defenseless against attacks like that at Jalapeno's or Luby's:

Country Diners Restaurants (Akron, Kent, & Alliance stores owned by Ed Davidian)

Quizno's Classic Subs, 121 Westerville Plaza, Columbus

Golden Nuggets Restaurants, Dayton (two stores, owned by family of Stacey Thomas)

Frisch's Inc. franchises statewide (Big Boy, Golden Corral, Frisch's)

Waffle House (all Dayton stores - and possibly all in Ohio??)

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