Bad Part of Town
Daniel Hawkins was in a Las Vegas, Nev., alley at night when two men came up to him and, he says, tried to rob him. Hawkins identified himself: he’s a police detective, and was working an undercover stakeout. One of the robbers was holding a gun, pointed at the ground. As he pulled it up to aim at Hawkins, Hawkins pulled his own gun and shot him. The man survived; his accomplice got away. Thomas L. Cotton, 48, has 112 prior arrests, and 11 felony convictions, including for robbery, but the gun he pulled was fake. (RC/Las Vegas Review-Journal, KSNV Las Vegas) ...So is the justice system that allowed Cotton to be free after 11 felony convictions.Original Publication Date: 05 March 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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