Here is an article form the Houston paper. Sad story.
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Houston Chronicle
Date: SUN 11/14/99
Section: A
Page: 42
Store owner, robber kill each other in attempted holdup
By JO ANN ZUNIGA
Staff
A grocery store owner and an 18-year-old would-be robber shot and killed each other at a store in Conroe Friday night.
The store owner, Barbara Byrd McCarty, 44, was found dead at the scene. The robber, Willie Darnell Cleveland Jr., died later at Conroe Regional Medical Center.
The shootings at McCarty's Grocery in the 1700 block of North First Street were discovered about 8:30 p.m. by Conroe police responding to a call from someone who was driving by and saw two people lying on the store's floor.
A videotape told the story of their life-and-death struggle.
Police Sgt. E. Bishop said the video shows the teen-ager entering the store wearing a hooded jacket with the hood covering his head.
He briefly walked around inside and then approached the checkout counter where he pulled a sawed-off shotgun from his jacket and demanded money.
The woman, apparently already suspicious of the man, had retrieved a pistol from under the counter. When the robber pulled the shotgun, she shot him one time.
But the shot did not disable him.
The teen is then seen coming around the side of the counter and beating McCarty and wresting the pistol away from her. He then shot her three times.
He tried unsuccessfully to open the cash register and then collapsed to the floor. He may have attempted to crawl away because his body was found by the doorway.
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I would bet this woman had no handgun training at all. Why didn't she shoot the perp again as he came around the counter??!!
This would have been completely avoidable with just a small amount of training. Shoot until the perp stops. I think this is another example of TV syndrome. People see someone on TV getting shot with a cap gun and they drop right away - or fly across the room like they were hit by a pickup. We here know that is not the case.
Be safe.
CMOS
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Houston Chronicle
Date: SUN 11/14/99
Section: A
Page: 42
Store owner, robber kill each other in attempted holdup
By JO ANN ZUNIGA
Staff
A grocery store owner and an 18-year-old would-be robber shot and killed each other at a store in Conroe Friday night.
The store owner, Barbara Byrd McCarty, 44, was found dead at the scene. The robber, Willie Darnell Cleveland Jr., died later at Conroe Regional Medical Center.
The shootings at McCarty's Grocery in the 1700 block of North First Street were discovered about 8:30 p.m. by Conroe police responding to a call from someone who was driving by and saw two people lying on the store's floor.
A videotape told the story of their life-and-death struggle.
Police Sgt. E. Bishop said the video shows the teen-ager entering the store wearing a hooded jacket with the hood covering his head.
He briefly walked around inside and then approached the checkout counter where he pulled a sawed-off shotgun from his jacket and demanded money.
The woman, apparently already suspicious of the man, had retrieved a pistol from under the counter. When the robber pulled the shotgun, she shot him one time.
But the shot did not disable him.
The teen is then seen coming around the side of the counter and beating McCarty and wresting the pistol away from her. He then shot her three times.
He tried unsuccessfully to open the cash register and then collapsed to the floor. He may have attempted to crawl away because his body was found by the doorway.
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I would bet this woman had no handgun training at all. Why didn't she shoot the perp again as he came around the counter??!!
This would have been completely avoidable with just a small amount of training. Shoot until the perp stops. I think this is another example of TV syndrome. People see someone on TV getting shot with a cap gun and they drop right away - or fly across the room like they were hit by a pickup. We here know that is not the case.
Be safe.
CMOS