Fort Worth’s Star-Telegram reported on Wednesday of an armed robbery in DeSoto, Texas, “DeSoto police have identified the man who robbed a Waffle House last week with an AK-47, but was shot in the parking lot by a customer who was legally carrying a concealed handgun.”

“Antione Devon Cooper, 26, of Dallas, reportedly stormed into the restaurant around 2:30 a.m. on July 7 brandishing the assault weapon,” reported the Star-Telegram. “He stole money from multiple customers and the Waffle House register, according to a police report.”

When the alleged robber fled the scene into the parking lot, a customer followed him.

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That customer, a legal gun owner who was waiting for his his wife to meet him at the Waffle House, was worried she might be in danger from the gunman if she arrived during that time.

“So he called out to the suspect,” the Star-Telegram reported, “and when he turned and pointed the rifle at him, the customer said he shot the suspect several times with his pistol.”

The suspect, Cooper, remains in a hospital on life support, according to the Dallas Morning News.

These types of altercations, in which legal firearm owners have stopped criminal gunman, have become more pronounced in the wake of the national gun control debates inspired by tragedies like the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando last month that left 50 clubgoers dead.

I noted two weeks ago that a legal gun owner stopped a potential mass shooting in my home state of South Carolina. WISTV reported on June 26th:

Deputies with Spartanburg County said a man faces multiple attempted murder charges after opening fire outside a nightclub early Sunday morning… Deputies said 32-year-old Jody Ray Thompson pulled out a gun after getting into an argument with another man and fired several rounds toward a crowd that had gathered out in front of the club. “His rounds struck 3 victims, and almost struck a fourth victim, who in self-defense, pulled his own weapon and fired, striking Thompson in the leg,” Lt. Kevin Bobo said.

WISTV continued, “Bobo said the man who shot Thompson has a valid concealed weapons permit, cooperated with investigators, and won’t be facing any charges.”

There was a similar incident, at a Waffle House no less, in my hometown of North Charleston, South Carolina last year. The Post & Courier reported in October 2015:

The Waffle House crew was busily going about its typical early-morning ritual — smothering and scrambling breakfast, clanking through the dirty dishes — when a robber jolted them out of their routine. A customer decided he was having none of that and opened fire in the North Charleston eatery, thwarting the holdup Saturday by fatally shooting the suspect. The young man who tried to rob the restaurant was rushed to Medical University Hospital, but he later died, police spokeswoman Angela Johnson said.

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I noted of the incident, which took place at a Waffle House restaurant that is a frequent stop for me, “One Waffle House employee said of the armed customer who stopped the shooting in her restaurant ‘He saved us, that’s what he did.”

Police said the customer who fired on the armed robber in DeSoto, Texas was not arrested.