Wal-Mart Employee Stabs Customer
Wal-Mart employee, Ray Canales, age 18, has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a teenage customer inside the store, according to KPRC. The altercation started at about 10:15pm Wednesday night at the Wal-Mart in Pearland, TX. More, inside....
The article says,
Investigators said a 16-year-old male customer got into an argument with the employee over a girl. The teen got upset and punched the employee, detectives said. The employee, 18-year-old Ray Canales, became enraged, pulled out a pocketknife and allegedly stabbed the customer five times about the upper back and face.
The victim was taken by helicopter to Memorial Hermann Hospital in serious but stable condition.
Canales was arrested and faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. If convicted, Canales could face two to 20 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
Hopefully, Wal-Mart enacts a "no-stabbing" policy for its employees.
Wal-Mart Employee Accused Of Stabbing Customer [KPRC] (Thanks to Melinda!)
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Houston area Walmarts are getting a great reputation lately...
They should have just shown their receipt.
Wal-Mart: come for the low prices, stay for the brutal employee stabbings!
The crazy chick was trying to pass off a fake money order. Money orders is srys bsns at Wal-Mart.
Walmart employs enough people that this is bound to happen from time-to-time. Call me when it happens more frequently at Walmart than it does generally in retail.
See???? That's what you get for shopping at Wal-mart!
Totally joking.
Was this individual a customer or was this a romantic dispute?
I guess the girl no longer has to choose between the two men.
OK, so I won't be going to Wal-Mart around here anytime soon I guess. Geez.
Honestly, WTF. Who packs weapons on the job? Or did the guy just casually take the argument over to the kitchen implements section?
@BlondeGrlz: I was going to go with, "His first mistake was living in Texas."
Oh no I didn't!
(I kid, I kid. Texas is lovely!)
@Kat@Work: It doesn't say anythign about the length of the blade. This could be a small Swiss Army type pocket knife.
"And you thought you could stab your problems away?"
--Betty White
@Kat@Work: Honestly, WTF. Who packs weapons on the job?
"Packs weapons"? I've been carrying a pocketknife of one sort or another on my person pretty much every day for the past twenty five years. Including at the office. The only time I don't carry it is when I'm going into a courthouse or airport, and the latter is a relatively new change for me.
A pocketknife, while it certainly can be used as a weapon, is a useful and handy tool. I think there are far too many people who immediately respond with the same kind of thinking you did here: equating carrying a pocketknife with "packing a weapon". It's that kind of thinking that leads to the utterly asinine zero-tolerance horror stories we frequently see about children be arrested on felony weapons charges for having a butter knife in their lunchbox or on the seat of their car.
Also, on an unrelated note, is anyone in charge around here going to at least offer an explanation of what the hell is going on with the comments on this site?
I was told a while back that I couldn't carry concealed in my walmart. This is making me think I should do it anyway.
He should have used a credit card...
Don
Why the F#*k would you ever want to fight over a girl? (sorry ladies) but If I ever have to fight for you to choose me over some other guy, your not worth it.
Aside fromt that, this is crazy. Im amazed they arent sentencing him to execution, since its texas.
The victim probably could have gotten to the hospital sooner, but the greeters had to check his receipt.
@Kat@Work: I also carry a pocket knife all the time and I work in a 9-5 office environment. It's just a pocket knife and a lot of people carry them. My seven year old daughter and 6 year old son even have those little swiss army knives with the scissors, but I dont allow them to carry it everywhere they go.
You cant just equate knife with weapon.
I just realized my workplace has no no-stabbing policy in effect. This is going to be a fun friday.
Definitely the customers fault!
@sir_pantsalot, @TinyBug, @HIV 2 Elway:
OK, while you 3 may not use pocketknives for stabbing rival boyfriends, obviously this guy did... hello?
It was used as a weapon here. Geez.
@pda_tech_guy: It does not meet the standard for capital murder, even in TX:
The following crimes are Capital Murder in Texas:
* murder of a public safety officer or firefighter;
* murder during the commission of kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, or obstruction or retaliation;
* murder for remuneration;
* murder during prison escape;
* murder of a correctional employee;
* murder by a state prison inmate who is serving a life sentence for any of five offenses (murder, capital murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, or aggravated robbery);
* multiple murders;
* murder of an individual under six years of age.
While he was defensive, it was too far...if someone had punched me, it is only normal to react with a blow back...but stabbing to death...
@GearheadGeek: I should've said "Even if the victim dies, it doesn't meet the standard for capital murder."
Could the victim sue wal-mart for anything?
@Kat@Work: That still doesn't justify the automatic categorization of every pocket knife as a weapon. Half a beer bottle can be used as a weapon, carrying a 6-pack of bottles doesn't make me armed and dangerous.
Wal-Mart: Watch out for falling prices! Also, death!
LOL, OK enough.
Everyone in here that thinks I'm trying to get your pocketknives taken away - STOP. You're taking my comments out of context. (The original context was HUMOR for those of you who didn't know.)
My WHOLE point is that this complete and total moron took his pocketknife and stabbed a guy repeatedly. Whatever he injured that guy with is now a weapon.
Quit trying to attack me and twist my comments to make it like I am pro zero tolerance. I am not.
While a pocketknife may not be a weapon in your hands, it was in this guy's. If he had picked a shampoo bottle off the shelf and beat this crap out of the guy with it, that shampoo bottle is now a weapon.
BAN SHAMPOO!! (That was a JOKE for those of you with no sense of humor.)
I'm almost positive there are details missing, but since he was struck first, why was it not considered self defense?
Maybe he was busy slashing prices and didn't see him standing there, I mean, accidents happen.
If they had the TSA GGS (Graphic Genitalia Screener) this would never have happened...
@DashTheHand: Hmmm, isn't there something about graduated responses?
If you get punched, you aren't immediately allowed to drop a nuke on the city to get him...
@DashTheHand:
Because he did not respond in kind(ie fisticuffs)which could have been defended if he had not then repeatedly stabbed his victim instead of stabbing or slashing and then getting the hell away.
self defense can quickly cross the line into assault.
D-
This is just another reason not to visit Houston...started with the weather and now it has extended to shopping!
Good thing they weren't at Hoffritz.
@Crymson_77: I'm from Houston and I have to agree. LOL. I have no idea why anyone would want to come here.
@Kat@Work:
Why not carry a weapon? I carry a pocket knife as a tool, and a handgun as a weapon.
When taking my class for the concealed handgun license the instructor asked "Who will carry their weapon at all times unless prohibited by statute?". Not one of us answered yes. After a whole bunch of questions asking us when and where we will carry (I just wanted the license so I "Could"), he convinced at least me that the only answer was "at all times unless prohibited by statute". That includes work (some offices will fire you over it, mine won't, but that still isn't prohibited by statute).
Would you want to tell the jury anything else if you ever had to use your weapon?
I have no idea how the argument went down. It sounds like the stabbing victim threw the first punch, so it may come down to self defense (but with a romantic dispute, I doubt it).
@pda_tech_guy: The amazing thing is that we just had our first execution of the year a few days ago. Waaaay behind our normal.
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@Kat@Work: Everyone in here that thinks I'm trying to get your pocketknives taken away -
They'll get my pocketknife when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
The original context was HUMOR
oh, ok. Sorry for any over-reaction. It actually is kinda funny, now that I know it was meant that way. Unfortunately there are some subjects where the humor of a smart person is indistinguishable from actual beliefs of a, shall we say, less than smart person.
Quit trying to attack me and twist my comments to make it like I am pro zero tolerance.
Whoa, there Nelly! Don't go overreacting to our overreactions, now. I didn't twist your words or even remotely imply you were pro zero tolerance. I just pointed out that that kind of thinking (if serious, which we now know it wasn't in this case) is the kind of thinking that leads to ZT nonsense.
And since this thread is rapidly approaching the 100 comment limit, it's time to move on... Peace
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But are they taking the matter seriously?
Jokes aside, I remember when fighting over a girl meant fisticuffs at worst. Maybe I just grew up in a different area.