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Marine veteran arrested after stopping armed robbery
Marine veteran Lloyd Muldrow was thanked by police officers after stopping an armed robber in a Baltimore bar, and then arrested for violation of city ordinance.
Muldrow is currently looking at a maximum of one year in prison for violation of Baltimore city ordinance which prohibits carrying a hand gun within 100 feet of a public building, even though the good Samaritan is credited with saving a fellow citizen’s life.
Additionally, the Marine stopped the attack without drawing his pistol.
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The Marine veteran who practices security as a profession in North Carolina does poses a concealed carry permit for his pistol, but the Virginia issued license does not have reciprocity in Maryland. Regardless, Muldrow intends to fight the charges outright rather than plea for a deal.
Muldrow said, “I’m not going to settle with probation or anything like that. I don’t think it’s fair. I’ve carried overseas in different countries, and you’re telling me I can’t carry my weapon from one state to another? I’ve trained more than the average police officer, and I can’t carry from Virginia to Maryland? I have a real big problem with that.”
Michael Stark, Muldrow’s attorney, said that the “good guy with the gun was placed under arrest for having a gun.”
In a statement, Stark said, “Lloyd Muldrow is an accomplished Marine, a self-defense instructor and a church-going mentor to young people. Now, because of Maryland’s outdated, and possibly unconstitutional gun laws, he faces jail as if he were every bit as criminally-minded as [the attacker], rather than the selfless hero for his country and his friends that he proved himself to be.”
According to the charging document by Baltimore state’s attorney, Muldrow, 57, walked into a Baltimore bar for a party when he saw alleged attacker, Wesley Henderson, brandishing a pistol and victim, Mr. Cullens bleeding from the head after being pistol whipped by the attacker.
Muldrow said that he heard Henderson yell, “I’ll kill everyone!”
Muldrow said:
“When I got there, I saw [Cullens] bleeding profusely from his head. It looked like he had a gunshot wound to his forehead. He was bleeding so badly that I couldn’t do anything but react. I saw the guy with the pistol in his hand, and I hit the guy and knocked him down. We went to the ground, and I secured the pistol from him. I mean, I reacted based on my training. I spent years training Marines to defuse situations.
When officers arrived on scene, Cullens and Muldrow were holding the suspect, his suit stained in blood.
One of the officers took Muldrow’s .22 caliber Beretta but Henderson’s pistol was never found, even though witnesses corroborated that he had brandished one and used it as a striking weapon. Henderson was charged with aggravated assault.
Stark said that “you hear police say it’s a pretty common occurrence in Baltimore that, by the time they get there, the gun has disappeared. And that’s what happened in this case.”
He continued, “Lloyd gets up and walks out and he‘s walking around a free man for a while, and you hear a bunch of cops lamenting the fact that their lieutenant has said, find out if that gun is legal. And it sucks because the police do have discretion. They don’t have to make arrests in every single case.”
Bodycam footage revealed one of the responding officers saying, “This guy probably saved somebody’s life, and he got arrested.”
Mr. Cullens was also heard saying, “If you hadn’t helped me, that guy would have killed me.”
Muldrow spoke well of the police who reluctantly arrested him under orders from their supervisor, stating, “The [police] reaction was, thank you, because we didn’t have to kill nobody and we didn’t have to shoot nobody. The officers, even when they took me to the jailhouse, it was like, please look out for this guy. This guy took care of us.”
