The perp was suspected in 13 armed robberies in Brooklyn in three months and they arrest the shooter!
Interesting comment: "We only had one minor break-in since July when we opened." Sounds like he's amazed that they were only hit once in six months.
Nothin' like livin' in the Big Apple.
You gotta love NY though - even the reporters' names sound like variations of
"Lefty" and "Fingers".
BANDIT'S KILLER MAY FACE RAP
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA and FRANKIE EDOZIEN
A would-be robber toting a sawed-off shotgun in his gym bag was shot and killed yesterday in a Brooklyn electronics store -- and one of his victims faces an illegal-gun rap, authorities said.
The dead man, tentatively identified as William Outlaw, is suspected in 13 armed robberies in Brooklyn between Oct. 6 and Jan. 1, cops said.
Police were not sure who shot Outlaw. But investigators said the gun was not licensed -- and they charged Garfield Hart, one of the owners of the store, with criminal possession of a weapon.
Hart and his brother Vibert, another co-owner, and one of their employees, had just opened the store, Connections, at 884 Flatbush Ave., when the gunman walked in at 10:11 a.m.
After scooping cash from the register, the gunman herded the trio into a back room and asked where the safe was.
He ordered his three captives to lie down, and held his shotgun to the employee's head.
Suddenly, a struggle broke out and someone fired the pistol, authorities said.
The robber -- shot once in the chest -- staggered from the store and collapsed on Church Avenue.
"He cleaned out two cash registers and then asked where the safe was," said a third owner, Ron Carpenter, who was not in the store during the shooting. "We only had one minor break-in since July when we opened."
