New Orleans police have arrested one suspect in connection with the armed robbery at the Waffle House on Elysian Fields Avenue on Thursday night (April 19).
Ernest Thomas was arrested on one count of armed robbery and one count of attempted armed robbery, but remains in the hospital as he recovers from gunshot wounds, NOPD said.

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Thomas stood on the side by the counter and served as lookout for the other man. A customer armed with his personal firearm drew his weapon as the other robber approached him, causing the robber to flee. Thomas then pointed his own weapon at the armed customer, the police release said.
The customer fired several shots at Thomas, who then ran out of the Waffle House and fled in a white Chrysler with the other robber. The customer later told police that he believed he had struck Thomas.
Later in the night, a white Chrysler pulled up at a local emergency room and dropped off a man with several gunshot wounds to the back, hip and arm. The man matched witness descriptions of the injured robber, according to the release.

Waffle House armed robbery suspect hospitalized with gunshot wounds: NOPD

I love happy endings. Now if you are so kind and check the date of the article, you will realize that this particular event happened 2 days before the shooting at the Waffle House in Nashville.  Why, one wonders, this particular Waffle House event was not publicized? It is a rhetorical question.

And without taking anything away from James Shaw Jr.  and his brave action, but I read many years ago in Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger that armed combat beats unarmed combat.  I have tried to live under that principle ever since.