On the night of Paul’s birthday, he is called in to work. Back home, masked hoodlums break in searching for valuables and attack Paul’s wife Lucy and teenage daughter Jordan. Paul is at work when they are brought in, Lucy dying on the table and Jordan left in a coma. In the aftermath, police can find no clues. After Lucy’s funeral, Paul picks up an unregistered gun dropped in the ER by a gangbanger and starts to train with it. He is out on the street one night when he witnesses a carjacking and shoots both the hoods. This is filmed by a witness and uploaded to YouTube where it is seen by large numbers and Paul nicknamed The Hooded Avenger. Emboldened, he goes out and shoots other criminals and his vigilante antics are soon the talk of the city. Paul traces the thugs that attacked his family but in going after them, he exposes his own identity to them and the police.