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Posted on 08/12/2007 2:59:38 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
A deadly shooting is being called self-defense, after a convenience store clerk in Yuba City took matters into her own hands during a robbery.
"We heard a couple gunshots and saw a bunch of people running," said Matt Lewis, who witnessed the incident. In normally quiet Yuba City, hearing gunshots will send people running, and it did on Friday night at the Percy Avenue Market.
About 8:15 p.m., a white man in his thirties wearing a dark jacket walked into the empty store. He demanded money at gunpoint. The female clerk, also one of the market's owners, gave him all she had, which was less than one hundred dollars. "He demanded more cash, and as he demanded more that's when the clerk pulled out a gun and shot the suspect," said Sergeant Kim Slade of the Yuba Police Department.
Shot in the chest, the man stumbled into the parking lot and died. Police found his gun and the money he had stolen in his coat.
"It was horrible, especially in your neighborhood. I mean, that's my house right there and this is my store," said Lewis.
Back at work on Saturday, but much too shaken to speak on camera, the woman and her husband say this is the worst experience in their 24 years of operation. It's not the first time the store has been robbed. Back in 1992, a man came in, demanded money and got into a scuffle with the owner. He ended up getting shot in the stomach and the suspect got away. The couple says they've learned a lot about self-defense since then.
The suspect is from the area but his identity has not been released. Police are investigating, but say the shooting looks to be self-defense. "We try and advise people not to take the law into their own hands. We look at each case differently, but it's kind of a spur of the moment thing, how one feels," said Slade.
No bias there.
highly unnecessary /sarc
Horse hockey! What was she supposed to do? Call a cop?
I am quoting another member here and I don't remember his name but he said that, "I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy".
Well, Well, Well! Right off the bat we are told the race of the perp, white. Wanna bet if he were not white we would be left guessing? But of course if the race of the perp were left out we could have a choice of one or two!
I love stories with a happy ending. . .(sniff)
Good for her, no matter what Sgt. Slade says. Scratch one armed robber.
She saved some other people a lot of grief in the future too...
“We try and advise people not to take the law into their own hands. We look at each case differently, but it’s kind of a spur of the moment thing, how one feels,” said Slade.”
When someone is holding a gun on you.....you give him money, and the money is not acceptable to the gun toting thug, I guess you can call it a “spur of the moment” thing........
He might have killed someone in the future.
Self-defense is not "taking the law in [one's] own hands." Every person possesses the inalienable right to self-defense, which is protected by law.
If the clerk and her husband had hunted down the perpetrator, confined him, tried him in a kangaroo court, and strung him up—that would have been "taking the law in their own hands."
Yep,he’s right where he needed to be.DIRT NAP.
Another violent criminal eats a double-tap.
I'll bet that had she not killed him, he would have continued to do it again and again, even if caught and convicted.
The fact that the guy didn’t just take the cash and leave shows exactly how wrong that situation was heading.
Rehabilitation through reincarnation...
More that that, WE are the law! The cops are mearly hired help us enforce it.
“I am quoting another member here and I don’t remember his name but he said that, “I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy”.”
ROFLMAO!! How True!
What a jerk. I'd like to see his reaction if a gun were pointed in his face. What was she supposed to do? Suggest therapy sessions for the bad guy?
Yeah, I always love to hear those words come out of the mouths of officials who are habitually armed, wear a bullet proof vest, carry extra backup weaponry in their car, and who are empowered to use deadly force whenever they feel “threatened.”
LOL That’s so true
Nice shot, lady!
Interesting, no? Hey, we know the drill.
Score one for the good gals...
Police are re-active NOT pro-active. (Too late!)
Wow...You don't read about too many stories where a female is being robbed at gun point, pulls a weapon and shoots the suspect dead.
Outstanding, and a very gutsy, quick thinking lady.
Easier said and done when you don't have an armed robber breathing in your face, bub...
Good story in spite of the dumb PC enemedia reportage and the ever-present retarded cop reciting the party line about the “law in their own hands”. It’s like they are afraid - if enough citizens take up arms, it would threaten their job security.
Good story in spite of the dumb PC enemedia reportage and the ever-present retarded cop reciting the party line about the “law in their own hands”. It’s like they are afraid - if enough citizens take up arms, it would threaten their job security.
I wonder if Sergeant Kim Slade of the Yuba Police Department has ever looked down the barrel of a loaded gun in the hand of a nut?
You want some more, punk?
Three lovely eyes.
You bet.
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