The Ridgeland Police Department issued the following statement.
Thursday, May 1, at 3:18am, Ridgeland officers responded to Two Gun Tactical, 287 Highway 51, Ridgeland, after receiving notification of a burglary alarm activation. Officers arrived within one minute and discovered a shattered window where entry was apparently made into the business.Due to the possibility of a barricaded suspect in a business holding firearms and ammunition extra precaution was taken to assure officer safety. Ridgeland PD’s Special Response Team was activated and with the assistance of a drone operator from the Madison Police Department the business was safely cleared and secured.
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Video surveillance of the business was reviewed and a lone burglar entered the business and took two firearms from a display case and quickly exited the business through the broken window.
The crime scene was thoroughly processed and an investigation was launched that led to the arrest of Thomas Schaffer, Jr. age 17, of Ridgeland and the recovery of the two stolen firearms.
Schaffer has been charged as an adult with one count of Burglary of a Commercial Building and two counts of Possession of a Stolen Weapon. Schaffer’s bond has been set at $200,000.00 and he will be held at the Madison County Detention Center.Special thanks to the Madison Police Department as well as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for their assistance in this investigation.
18 comments:
Not from Jackson? Who knew?
I wonder what he intended to do with them?
Ridgeland, Mississippi is time for Chief to wakeup. I glad his ass is behind bars.
Mama, did he make it to first period? This is really sad, he could have took a bullet! This young fool didn’t mastermind this by himself I’m sure another dummy was not far away! Playing with fire will get burnt!
Good work! I hope he gets the maximum penalty. No diversions or any other crap. He shouldn’t get out of prison before he is 50 at least. The more of his type of scum we can lock up for decades at a time, the better.
What is wrong with these fools, going into another persons business or home is a dangerous project! Was this young fool willing to die for something so trivial? At 3:18am Mama where are your boys? We have to do better policing our children.
Yall this was just a prank. He was just trying to become an influencer. He was making a TikTok video and things got out of hand. Boys will be boys. White teens have done waaay worse.
5-03 109# Little man complex. I wonder if he was being bullied and was going to use these gats to seek revenge?
so was he still a student at RHS ? or had he already become a drop out
He has been in the store before! You don’t break into a building without knowing/casing the joint! Unless you are a DUMMY. Im sure there will be more arrests. He doesn’t look he was calling the shots.
@12:32
Ridgeland is the new Jackson. Parents have for years fled fromthe thugs in Jackson but in turn, bring the thugs with them to the affordable housing. Give it ten years and Ridgeland will be identical to Jackson. I do hope the respectable residents of Ridgeland remain though. We need them as a buffer, much like northeast Jackson used to be.
Gang initiation anyone?
1:23pm No, it is not, and will not ever be.
Good work RPD and others who assisted. Have to say RPD is busy all the time. Doing a good job. Good communication and yes handling the folks who flee from Hinds to Madison county. Had my doubts with some changes made a few years ago. Currently definitely impressed. Thank you to all RPD officers and leadership.
@1:25 you're correct. There are too many apartment complexes in Ridgeland. Municipalities without a major college sign their own death certificate when they allow as many apartment complexes to be built as Ridgeland did in the 1990s.
He sniffed the cops before they arrived
2:37, I'm going out on a limb here by guessing you really meant to say you were replying to 1:25, not 1:23. Hate to tell you but today Ridgeland is close to 60% rental properties and that % will only increase over the next decade or two as people move on and upward. That 60-75%'s vote is going to be different than yours. Ridgeland IS changing.
Madison needs to annex all of the non-apartment /non-rental neighborhoods of Ridgeland, including Colony Park. Jackson can have the rest.
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