7-11 still will not allow its employees to have weapons, but now if a lowlife kills a 7-11 clerk, a rent-a-cop my come out of the back room and shoot the murderer!
This may not be a step in the right direction.
Posted: Sunday, October 15, 2000 | 7:12 p.m.
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Robber kills store clerk, is then fatally shot by
guard
By Bill Bryan
Of the Post-Dispatch
A robber fatally shot a clerk late Saturday at the 7-Eleven store at
3160 Morganford Road, and then the store's security guard killed the
robber, St. Louis police said.
The robber shot the clerk, Naimatullah Hassan, 24, of Florissant, in the
chest with a sawed-off shotgun at about 11 p.m., after Hassan
apparently had refused to turn over the money, police said.
When the store's security guard, who was in a back room, heard the
commotion, he ran to the front of the store and shot the robber
several times with his .38-caliber revolver.
The robber was identified as Ryan Fierce Taylor, 28, of the 4300 block
of Manchester Avenue.
Taylor was the son of a St. Louis police officer, Marjorie Tunstall. She
is an investigator in the circuit attorney's office.
Police did not release the name of the guard, who was an off-duty St.
Louis deputy sheriff. Michael Guzy, Sheriff Jim Murphy's administrative
assistant, said of the shooting, "According to the early police report,
the deputy's actions were justified, appropriate and perhaps heroic."
Hassan was married two months ago in his native Afghanistan and was
waiting for his wife to obtain the necessary papers to join him in St.
Louis, said Tony Dame, 25, a friend and former co-worker.
Hassan had worked for the 7-Eleven about five years and had several
relatives in St. Louis, Dame said. He was helping to raise a younger
brother and a younger sister since their father's death from a heart
attack about a year ago, Dame added.
"He was a good guy," Dame said of Hassan, who was known as "Sean"
by customers in the neighborhood around Morganford and Juniata
Street.
"Whenever you'd leave the store, Sean would say to you in his native
tongue, 'God will be with you,' " Dame said.
Chris Wilhite, 23, a 7-Eleven customer, said, "He was real cool, down
to earth and had a kind heart."
Another customer, Cynthia Milliam, 41, said of Hassan, "If somebody
didn't have quite enough money, he'd let them slide. He did that for me
a couple of times."
This may not be a step in the right direction.
Posted: Sunday, October 15, 2000 | 7:12 p.m.
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Robber kills store clerk, is then fatally shot by
guard
By Bill Bryan
Of the Post-Dispatch
A robber fatally shot a clerk late Saturday at the 7-Eleven store at
3160 Morganford Road, and then the store's security guard killed the
robber, St. Louis police said.
The robber shot the clerk, Naimatullah Hassan, 24, of Florissant, in the
chest with a sawed-off shotgun at about 11 p.m., after Hassan
apparently had refused to turn over the money, police said.
When the store's security guard, who was in a back room, heard the
commotion, he ran to the front of the store and shot the robber
several times with his .38-caliber revolver.
The robber was identified as Ryan Fierce Taylor, 28, of the 4300 block
of Manchester Avenue.
Taylor was the son of a St. Louis police officer, Marjorie Tunstall. She
is an investigator in the circuit attorney's office.
Police did not release the name of the guard, who was an off-duty St.
Louis deputy sheriff. Michael Guzy, Sheriff Jim Murphy's administrative
assistant, said of the shooting, "According to the early police report,
the deputy's actions were justified, appropriate and perhaps heroic."
Hassan was married two months ago in his native Afghanistan and was
waiting for his wife to obtain the necessary papers to join him in St.
Louis, said Tony Dame, 25, a friend and former co-worker.
Hassan had worked for the 7-Eleven about five years and had several
relatives in St. Louis, Dame said. He was helping to raise a younger
brother and a younger sister since their father's death from a heart
attack about a year ago, Dame added.
"He was a good guy," Dame said of Hassan, who was known as "Sean"
by customers in the neighborhood around Morganford and Juniata
Street.
"Whenever you'd leave the store, Sean would say to you in his native
tongue, 'God will be with you,' " Dame said.
Chris Wilhite, 23, a 7-Eleven customer, said, "He was real cool, down
to earth and had a kind heart."
Another customer, Cynthia Milliam, 41, said of Hassan, "If somebody
didn't have quite enough money, he'd let them slide. He did that for me
a couple of times."