A casual day shopping at the mall can go south quickly when thugs try to stage a holdup by flashing a “large butcher knife.” Lots of mall cops aren’t equipped to handle a threat like that. Fortunately, one of the shoppers at Las Vegas’s Fashion Show Mall, located in the heart of the Strip, was carrying a firearm.
According to 8newsnow.com . . .
Security officers found the man, later identified as [Letrelle] Calhoun, “flashing a knife” in another area of the mall and detained him while Metro officers arrived, documents said. Officers described the weapon as a “large butcher” knife.
While “flashing” the knife, officers said Calhoun threatened to kill the security officers, lunging at three of them, police said.
That’s when the shopper who was carrying the gun stepped in to help.
A person in the area pulled out a gun, pointing it at Calhoun in the process, police said.
“This gave the security officers the opportunity to disarm Calhoun and place him in hand restraints,” police said.
Calhoun also faces a charge of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, records showed.
8newsnow.com reports that Calhoun is being held on $5000 bond. That means $500 will spring him, so look for him to be back out on the street of Sin City soon.
All of this brings up an interesting question. Should a concealed carrier step in to help law enforcement officers (or mall cops, in this case) deal with a situation? The concealed carrier certainly seems to have brought the Las Vegas mall incident to a peaceful conclusion, but that might not always be the case. What would you do?
