Family Of Adric White, Robbery Suspect, Outraged At Good Samaritan Who Shot Him

The family members of a robbery suspect that held a store employee at gunpoint in Alabama are lashing out at the Good Samaritan who shot him and stopped the robbery.

Adric White, 18, was shot five times after he allegedly tried to hold up a Family Dollar store in Mobile on Nov. 12.

FOX10 spoke exclusively to both the unnamed Good Samaritan and the family members of White. They're livid that their son was shot while pointing a gun in someone's face.

“If [the customer's] life was not in danger, if no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him - what gives him the right to think that it's okay to just shoot someone?” a relative, who wished to remain anonymous, told FOX10. “You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.”

But when the suspect pulled out a gun at about 5:30 p.m., the Good Samaritan did too.

“He had the gun to his head. He had him on his knees,” said the Good Samaritan, who wished to remain anonymous. “I drew my gun on him and I said 'Hey don't move.' At that point he swung around and before he had a chance to aim the gun at me I fired. I didn’t want to shoot him.”

The man shot White five times. He was taken to USA Medical Center, where he remains in police custody.

The local news station had previously interviewed White's parents, but they called later demanding that the video not be aired.

White was out of jail on bond after previously robbing The Original Oyster House at gunpoint just a little over a month before he robbed the Family Dollar.

Accomplice Tavoris Moss, 19, was also arrested in the Family Dollar robbery.

“[Criminals] tend to think that they are the only ones with guns," the Good Samaritan told the station. "I’ve been legally carrying my firearm for a little over four years now, and thank God I’ve never had to use it until, of course, last night. It just goes to show it's good to have a concealed carry. You never know when your going to need it.”


Police said that the Good Samaritan who opened fire was justified and broke no laws.

Five shots and the thug ain't dead?

New Years resolution. Get a 30 round semi-auto.

the pulling of a gun on a person is life threatening and therefore is acceptable to retaliate in kind.. If you dont want to be shot best not to put someone else in the same position...

Yea, how dare someone interrupt his robbery.

Punk got what he deserved.

I understand family members being irrationally angry about the death of a loved one... but I still have trouble wrapping my head around this:

"what gives him the right to think that it's okay to just shoot someone?"

seems like common sense,,,although that's an unwelcome term here,,,

Shooting someone aiming a gun at you is not common sense?

yep,Common Sense shoots good,doesn't it?

common sense is subjective enough that its just not a welcome term here, in my experience

it offends those who don't have the same 'senses' as the one making the claim


but, yah, I believe responding with arms (when one has arms) against someone using arms,, is common sense

The family DEMANDED that their statements expressing outrage that their son was shot not be shown by the TV station? Seriously?
They should have thought about that before opening their mouths and looking like the fools that they are. Some people need a backspace key on their mouth.

But hey......maybe he's a good guy and was just out trying to get funds to hire a good lawyer to represent him in court for the other armed robbery he was probably wrongfully accused of.

yep,that's what the 2nd is all about!

The court needs to sentence the Samaritan to time at the range.

He needs to be able to hit the kill zone.

obsession,,,its not just for those who 'whine' about race,,,,

Yea, the bad thing with only injuring the thug is that he will get a free lawyer and sue your A**.

In Michigan you are instructed during CCW coarse that you always "Shoot to stop, you don't shoot to kill" usually said while the instructor is winking and nodding.

What does the Second Amendment have to do with Race?
Why is everything with you about Race?

such a lovely culture

if its possible to wound, kill instead,,,,

you shoot at the Biggest Body-Mass,so there is a slight chance of a Fatality!

the same reason everything to others is about guns or the evils of government or OBama,,,