Dallas Texas –-(Ammoland.com)- Independence Day should be a day of celebration and jubilance, but for one mother and her two young children that happened to stop at a southern Dallas Shell gas station around 10 P.M., it would become a night that they would never forget. Every parent’s nightmare is their kids being kidnapped. That nightmare came true for the women on this fateful stop, but she had the mindset and the tools to affect the outcome of the crime.
While Michelle Booker-Hicks was paying for her gas, she saw a man get into her car with her two-year-old and four-year-old sons. Knowing that the police would not be able to help in her desperate time of need, she decided to act to protect her kids from the carjacker.
The man sped off in Booker-Hicks’ car, but not before she was able to jump into the back seat with her children to confront the thief. The carjacker didn’t seem threatened by Booker-Hicks actions, but all that was about to change.
“I proceeded to jump in my backseat and told the gentleman to stop, to get out the car. He would not get out of the car,” she told the local Fox affiliate. “He turned around and looked at me. I reached over the armrest to get my glove compartment, and that’s when I fired at him once I got the gun from my glove compartment.”
The man, who police identified as 36-year-old Ricky Wright, was hit by a single shot to the head fired from Booker-Hicks’ pistol, and after being hit by the bullet fired by the mother, he lost control of the vehicle and ran off the road. The car plowed into a fence and came to a stop. The hero mother and her kids were not hurt in the collision. Emergency workers took Wright to the hospital where doctors treated him for his gunshot wounds sustained in the carjacking attempt.
The mother does not have any regrets about the shooting of the carjacker to save her family. She was not going to let herself or her kids become a statistic. She only fired one shot but wished she had emptied the magazine into the would be a carjacker.
“I’m not a killer, but I do believe in defending what’s mine,” Booker-Hicks said. “I hope that woke him up.”
Texas gun laws are an advantage to law-abiding citizens. In other states such as New York or California, the state makes the mothers helpless in protecting her children. Gun advocates are using this feat of heroism to show how people use guns to save lives.
The now shot Ricky Wright was arrested and is expected to be charged by police for kidnapping and the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle or carjacking. It isn’t clear if Wright knew the children were in the car or what he was planning to do with them. What is clear is that once he realize the woman and her kids were in the car he was not going to pull over.
This act of defending one’s family shows how a good guy can use a gun to stop a bad guy. It also shows that criminals should avoid provoking a mama bear with her cubs.
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If this happened in California, she would be in jail, the kids would be in foster care, and the criminal would be suing her for pain and suffering.
Great job, too bad the SOB is still living. But I have two questions for the lady, 1 Why did you leave two children in a car with the keys in it? 2 Why did you have a gun in the glove box that a four year old could git his hands on it? Just asking.
Nominate her for mother of the year!
Nothing in nature is more dangerous than a mother protecting their young. GOOD JOB!!!
No one knows if he would have strong armed her or beat her til she gave up said keys. If she had been knocked out no telling what would have happened. He was of a mindset to steal her car, regardless, then not pullover after finding out all three were in the car. That’s three counts of kidnapping. The fact she jumped in the car should have been enough for him to stop, unless he thought he was gonna get so.e free female time,.true keys in ignition is not a good thing but you guys excoriate her for this, when… Read more »
A car that new has a ringer in it that warns you if you leave the keys in the ignition and exit the vehicle. The sound is enough of an annoyance to make you want to take the keys out of the ignition. Even before this safety feature I took my keys out out of the ignition when I got out of the car. It is just common sense. Due to her lack of use of common sense she almost lost her kids. Time for her to put her thinking cap on and remove keys along with not leaving a… Read more »
The Texas Penal Code considers your car an extension of your home. Perfectly legal for any law abiding adult citizen or legal resident to carry a loaded pistol in the glove box or anywhere else in the car as long as it is concealed. No license required.
The lady should consider on-body Carry / it’s better than a glove box.
It really is unfortunate the man is not dead. The world does not need his sort
Anyone who leaves thekeys in the car’s ignition when they are away from the car, or even outside it and close by, needs to reassess. Had she had those keys ON HER when she was inside the station, he never could have started the car or driven off.
Same wiht her handgun.. he nearly got away with her two kids, her car, AND her gun. Don’t arm the thugs!!!! Keep yer handgun where it belongs. ON your person.
Ricky, we just got your X-Rays back, and we think we know what’s wrong. YOU’RE S T U P I D!!!
Sorry, we have no treatment for that…
Momma bear 1 POS 0