Courageous Good Samaritan Uses His Second Amendment Right To Defend Illinois Mailman

Illinois saw just why allowing private citizens to carry firearms can help in reducing crime as a good Samaritan was able to use their Second Amendment right to stop a would-be robbery from occurring on a postal worker in a suburb. 

The thwarted robbery occurred around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday in River Grove, Illinois, a western Chicago suburb. An armed suspect approached a U.S. Postal Service employee demanding that he hand over his keys to his vehicle. The worker complied with the demands of the robber but the nearby Samaritan saw the shakedown occur and fired shots at the suspect, scaring them off. 

"I heard like a bang, bang, and bang, bang, bang, bang, then my mom screams, 'Tell me those weren’t gunshots,'" a witness who lives in the area said, per NBC 5 Chicago. 

Police who arrived at the scene said that “words and gunshots were exchanged” at the scene before “the male suspect ran back to the vehicle that dropped him off, and the vehicle fled north on River Road.”

A mother in the local area took the postal worker into her home following the incident as he was too rattled to continue working immediately. The two daughters of the mother spoke with NBC 5 Chicago.

"My mom let the mailman inside our house to see if he was OK because she talks to him regularly. He always comes around here," one daughter said.

"He was just very distressed, very scared. You could tell he was very nervous from what had just happened," the other daughter stated. They both stated that the neighborhood they live in is usually quiet so the incident that occurred was quite the shock for everyone. 

Luckily, no one was actually injured during the brief scuffle, though the suspect did manage to get away. Authorities in the area are offering a $50,000 reward for anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest of the suspect.