INDEPENDENCE DAY: In Dallas, texas, Michelle Booker-Hicks shoots Ricky Wright in the head for entering her sport utility “vehicle” (a legal term for an “automobile or truck” bearing goods, services or persons in commercial transit) without permission and refusing to leave.  Hicks had her two sons, ages four and two in the SUV.

       [added 4/20/2023]

Subsequent Events:

Authority:

texas constitution of 1876, article I, section 23
statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.1.htm

References:

Texas mom shoots man trying to take car with her kids insde at gas station: ‘I hope that woke him up’ | Fox News
www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/05/texas-mom-shoots-man-trying-to-take-car-with-her-kids-inside-at-gas-station-hope-that-woke-him-up.html

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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