Good Samaritan Shot After Intervening in Domestic Dispute
A good Samaritan trying to prevent a man from beating his girlfriend was brutally murdered by the couple in South Dallas, Texas. Rubin Brown, 27, was shot and killed when the couple, upset by his intervention, returned to seek vengeance.
"He didn't deserve this," Brown's fiancé, Quenetha Bell told Dallas News. "He took care of this household. He took care of his kids. He provided."
The incident occurred early Thursday morning in South Dallas. Brown and Bell were out when they saw a man and woman fighting. The man allegedly slammed the woman onto a parked car, and when she pleaded for help, Bell and Brown responded. They asked the man to leave but told the woman that she could stay with them until police arrived.
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The man then put the woman back into the car and attempted to drive away, so Brown dove into action. He reportedly punched the man in an effort to prevent him from leaving, but all he succeeded in doing was angering the woman he was with. The couple then told Brown that they would return to "settle things," Bell said.
Early in the morning, the couple did return to Brown's home along with two other people. They opened fire on the house and car. Bell immediately took her 2-year-old son and hid under the bed; Brown was hit by shots that came through the living room wall. He was pronounced dead at Baylor University Medical Center.
"We don't know them from Adam and Eve, whatsoever," Brown's friend Demetric Young told NBC. He was there to witness the dispute and the shooting. "They drove off and said, 'They'd be back.' We thought nothing of it. We were just, [Brown] was just being a good Samaritan."
No arrests have been made in the case, but police are hoping that footage from a surveillance camera across the street will help.
