Posted on 03/15/2005 5:36:45 PM PST by csvset
Suspect Shot During Robbery Attempt at Hampton Food Lion
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Hampton police say a man attempting to hold up a grocery store was shot by a store security guard Monday night.
The 19-year old suspect, identified as Caleb Joshua Carr of the 3500 block of Kecoughtan Road, is in intensive care with a gunshot wound to the head. He is listed in stable condition.
According to authorities, it was around 10:42pm when the guard inside the Food Lion in the 3800 block of Kecoughtan Road saw a masked man jump over a counter and demand money from a cashier.
Police say the guard identified himself as security personnel and demanded that the suspect surrender. When the suspect pointed the gun toward the guard, officials say the guard fired one shot striking the suspect in the head.
None of the customers or employees in the business at the time were injured.
This is the second time in less than two months that police were called to a late night robbery at a Hampton Food Lion.
In January, police were called to a store in the 2700 block of Nickerson Boulevard when two masked men pointed weapons at cashiers and demanded money. When a cashier couldn't get her register to open fast enough, the suspects opened fire. The cashier was hit by a ricochet bullet. Another worker was shot in the shoulder.
Both employees recovered from their injuries.
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No matter. Heads are remarkably hard items, and large and small caliber round alike have been known to deflect when they hit one.
In any case, even if hit a glancing blow it would feel like a hammer and the idiot... ahhh, suspect might have just gone down from that alone.
"It ain't armed robbery if the gun ain't loaded."..great scene and line..
Chesterfield County is a red jurisdiction. Most of urban Tidewater is blue as is Northern Virginia. Crime can occur anywhere but the blue jurisdictions seem to foster it.
Damn fine shot !
Bad guys wear kevlar too folks (see Tyler TX Courthouse shooting) , albeit not in this case /////practice that failure drill , Two to the chest and one to the noggin every time !.....practice practice practice. Shoot to live........Shoot to stop the threat !
Wish you the best and stay safe in Virginia. Monticello is awesome in late May (if you can bear the crowds).
Yep, and we intend to keep it that way.
REAL Gun Control BUMP!
"Nice shootin', Tex!"
Yikes! I almost rented down there...(I know it could happen anywhere)...
Yep.....
What a funny movie that was!!!
Was the guard an off dtuy LEO? Seems like a pretty good shot for your run of the mill security guard.
Wish you the best and stay safe in Virginia. Monticello is awesome in late May (if you can bear the crowds).
Thanks, I will.
You noticed when you were here that the farther you get from Hampton Roads/Tidewater (Va Bch, Norfolk, Hampton, etc....) and DC the better everything gets.
Richmond still has one of the highest murder rates in the country though, because the Richmond city council has been so busy filling their own pockets with the taxpayer's money that they haven't had enough left to put toward controlling the gangbangers. They have taken graft to an art form.
Just another "child" injured by a firearm in the stats of the gun-grabbers.
"Police say the guard identified himself as security personnel and demanded that the suspect surrender. When the suspect pointed the gun toward the guard, officials say the guard fired one shot striking the suspect in the head."
Good shooting by the guard. However, he needs to upgrade his gun for a more powerful load for predators with really hard heads and small brains.
Something like this?
Bowen Classic Arms modified Ruger Super Redhawk in .475 Linebaugh. Fires a 400gr bullet at 1450 FPS. This one is mine. Guaranteed to stop a 1000lb Alaskan Brown Bear with a single shot.
I lived in Alaska for six years and religiously carried a Mossberg 12-gadge riot shotgun and a Ruger .44 mag with me everwhere I went (as did 95% of the population).
I salmon fished several times a week in remote areas and often by myself.
The purpose of carrying the Mossberg was to blind the beast (face shot) using magnum buckshot alternated with magnum slugs to buy enough time to escape.
The meanest bear walking is a mamma grizzly on the other side of her cubs - she'll even take down a full grown male protecting her cubs (bulls eat cubs).
A friend of mine is a fishing guide in Alaska and loves to tell the story of the time he was guiding an 'ole boy from Texas who thought his .44 mag would 'kill anything walking.'
There they were on a full salmon run stream when two cubs ran right across the stream in front of them.
Here come the sow sure enough headed across the stream straight at them in full charge.
The guide had his .44 mag and both he and Tex emptied their full loads into the sow.
They dropped her less than three feet from their boot tips.
I stick with the Mossberg, but the .44 is good for the 2-legged beasts.
The Grizzly gun might be a little too much for most two legged predators in America.
I was thinking plain old 357 magnum. A head shot with the the 357 would probably be instantly terminal.
The 12 gauge shot gun loaded with double OO's works well, also.
Of course shot placement is everything.
Never try and kill a grizzly with a head shot - their skull is almost 3 inches in places and hard as a rock.
I understand that. I've had a teenager.
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