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Perhaps no good deed goes unpunished.
A woman described as a "sharpshooter" has been sentenced to 18 months of probation for firing a gun at a getaway car as suspected shoplifters fled a Home Depot in suburban Detroit.
"I tried to help, and I learned my lesson that I will never help anybody again," Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez, 46, said after receiving the sentence, according to WJBK.
The station reported Duva-Rodriguez had a concealed pistol license when she heard a scream at the store. She feared the incident was worse than a theft and tried to intervene by shooting at the suspects' tires.
“She’s there to help; saw something happening; thought it was serious; pulled her gun,” her attorney, Steven Lyle Schwartz, told WJBK. “She didn’t want to hurt anybody. We didn’t know that there were any people in the parking lot, other than this person that was driving away this vehicle. She didn’t shoot it in the air; she didn’t shoot it at the window, at the windshield. She fired at the tires.”
Duva-Rodriguez told judge Julie Nicholson she "made a decision in a split second" while trying to help. Her gunfire flattened a tire on the getaway vehicle on Oct. 6 at a Home Depot in Auburn Hills.
No one was injured in the shooting.
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