St. Louis Housing Authority Evicts Man in Wheelchair for Defending Himself With a Gunhttps://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/defensive-gun-use/st-louis-housing-authority-evicts-man-in-wheelchair-for-defending-himself-with-a-gun/While the state of Missouri is considered a pro-Second Amendment state—including having Constitutional Carry—the City of St. Louis has a tendency to try to go its own way on the matter. The recent case of a resident evicted from his public housing unit after a defensive gun use appears to be the latest example.
St. Louis once had a Circuit Attorney, Kim Gardner, who was heavily funded by anti-gun billionaire George Soros, and who seemed more interested in the overzealous prosecution of gun owners than truly violent criminals. In 2023, then-mayor Tishaura Jones proposed banning certain firearms in the city; an idea met with a swift response from then-Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
In yet another recent example of things going wrong in St. Louis, a wheelchair-bound man was told by the St. Louis Housing Authority that he was being evicted after the man was forced to use a firearm to defend himself from a violent attacker.
The incident took place on August 26, and a report by FOX 2/KTVI St Louis notes that the Housing Authority sent the resident, Torrey Holliday, an eviction letter after viewing a surveillance video that “captured [Torrey Holliday] on front lobby video shooting someone.”
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But perhaps most important is the fact that police investigated the shooting and “classified [it] as an act of self-defense against an armed intruder.”
Grafana describes the incident:
“Holliday, who uses a wheelchair, found himself cornered in the lobby of his apartment complex on the 5300 block of North Euclid. According to court records and police reports, a man named Randall T. Taylor had previously stolen a firearm from him. When they crossed paths again, Taylor confronted him, declared a robbery, and kept advancing even as Holliday tried to roll his wheelchair away.
Holliday drew his weapon, fired, and protected his life. Law enforcement subsequently charged Taylor with first-degree robbery, armed criminal action, and unlawful possession of a firearm.”
Guess which major US city has the highes per-100K-residents murder rate,
https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/homicide-rates-in-us-cities/ . Yeppers, St. Louis, and it's 50% worse than #2, Baltimore. The infamous Chicago is "only" #7. The gooberment of St. Louis should thank Holliday for shooting at - and hopefully hitting - Taylor! Make crime risky and painful!
