A car repossession can be a highly emotional situation, which is why sadly sometimes they end in violence. That was the case in a northwest Atlanta neighborhood in the early morning hours of January 30 as a woman who was trying to stop the repo man from taking her friend’s car was shot.
Watch a suspect flee cops in the snow, then get a big PIT maneuver.
Exactly what happened is under investigation by Atlanta Police. We do know the woman survived after she was shot in the leg at around 1:30 am. After being transported to the hospital, the woman was in stable condition, per WSB-TV.
Apparently, the woman was over at her friend’s house when she noticed a tow truck driver outside hooking up the friend’s car to repossess it. We guess she felt the need to stick up for her friend, instead of just offering a ride or something, so she went out and started arguing with the repo man.
Usually these stories stop with words exchanged, anger, maybe someone getting into the car and that’s it. Sometimes people try driving the vehicle off the tow truck’s boom. But in this case, the repo man claims someone shot at him, and that’s when he shot the woman in the leg.
There’s probably a lot of information missing as police sift through evidence and statements made by the people involved, including the suspicion another man is involved, although it’s not clear in what capacity.
We get that seeing your car or your buddy’s ride getting repossessed might be shocking or even enraging. But people know that’s coming, even if they try to deny it to themselves. The worst thing you can do in the situation is try fighting the repo man. If the bank legally owns the vehicle and you’re not keeping up on payments, it has the legal right to send someone to take it away.
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