A father of two has been shot dead in a suspected carjacking gone wrong, likely after he refused to hand over the car keys with his daughter strapped into the back seat.
Gerard Grandzol, 38, was fatally shot in the face at point-blank range around 8pm on Thursday, just after he parked his SUV on the one-way street outside his family's home in Philadelphia.
Grandzol, the married father of the two-year-old daughter in the car and a five-week-old newborn daughter, worked as the executive director of Special Counsel, a legal recruiting and staffing firm.
Police sources speculated to the Philadelphia Inquirer that Grandzol was shot in a carjacking gone wrong, after he gave up his wallet but refused to hand over his car keys to protect his daughter in the back seat.
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You could write a country song about this. "How can it go wrong when it was never right" See how desensitized I've become. Such a very sad useless act of crime.
ReplyDeleteGet a gun, learn to use it, carry it.
ReplyDeleteHero! Good man for protecting his daughter.
ReplyDeleteIf this F*****g country wasn't so damn liberal he could have been ccw and he could have taken care of business and an innocent man would be alive today.
Have a weapon, qualified to use it, and carry it.
ReplyDeleteHow would someone do that when a gun is already in your face? Not everyone trains MMA.
DeleteHad to stand there defenseless and let this piece of garbage kill him. Way to go government a-holes. Take away a persons right to defend themselves. He should have had a firearm on his person for just such a purpose.This has got to change. Like I said, police only respond to a crime, so what good are they? When seconds count, the police are minutes away.
ReplyDelete@6:48. Really? If he had a firearm it would have been a deterrent. The criminal would have seen it and most likely ran like the cowards they usually are. Something would have been better than nothing. There was no one there to help him. He should have been allowed to have been armed.
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