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Police: Robbery suspect accidentally shot himself
Charlotte Observer ^ | 6/16/09 | Kimberly Dick

Posted on 06/16/2009 9:33:55 AM PDT by DeFault User

ROCK HILL Two Rock Hill teens were charged Monday in an early-morning robbery after one of them accidentally shot himself, deputies say.

Around 4:45 a.m., a man approached a bread delivery driver behind Harris Teeter on Celanese Road and asked for directions to Taylor Oaks, according to a York County Sheriff's Office report. Then, another man came from behind a dumpster, holding a knife and asking for money.

The man who asked for directions put a bandanna over his face and pulled out what looked like a sawed-off shotgun, said Lt. Tim Hager of the York County Sheriff's Office.

The delivery driver told deputies that he started backing away from the two men and said he didn't have any money. The driver threw his wallet at the men and backed into the store to call police, the report states.

“They took about $300 and took off running,” Hager said.

While deputies were at the grocery store investigating the armed robbery, police received a call that someone had been shot.

The caller, Lewis Huffstetler, 18, told police that he and his friend, Jamar Herman Weldon, 18, were robbed behind the Harris Teeter by a bread delivery driver and that Weldon had been shot.

But Hager said it appears Weldon accidentally shot himself in the knee area.

Huffstetler and Weldon were each charged with armed robbery and possession of a weapon during commission of violent crime, Hager said.

Deputies say Huffstetler left some money in a patrol car while he was being transported.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: dumbcrook; firearms
Criminal shoots himself, reports crime and drops loot in patrol car. It doesn't get any better or dumber than that.
1 posted on 06/16/2009 9:33:56 AM PDT by DeFault User
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2 posted on 06/16/2009 9:36:02 AM PDT by earlJam
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To: upchuck; SC Swamp Fox

Just another day in Rock Hill.

Ping!


3 posted on 06/16/2009 9:43:32 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("If Dick Cheney is Darth Vader, then Barack Obama is Jar-Jar Binks!")
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Dumb Criminal PING!!!


4 posted on 06/16/2009 9:46:18 AM PDT by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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Then, another man came from behind a dumpster, holding a knife and asking for money.

"Please, sir, may I have some money?"

5 posted on 06/16/2009 9:49:10 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("Baldrick, to you the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?")
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Nahhh, he was just asking for bread and had the knife ready to butter it. -or- spread the peanut butter -or- something else. Their attorney will decide the best approach. “What looked like a sawed-off shotgun, your Honor, was just a big salami my client was carrying.”


6 posted on 06/16/2009 9:53:03 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Slings and Arrows; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; ...
Dumbies!

South Carolina
Ping

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7 posted on 06/16/2009 9:56:39 AM PDT by upchuck (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
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To: upchuck; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...

"I was just funnin' with him!"



8 posted on 06/16/2009 10:15:32 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("If Dick Cheney is Darth Vader, then Barack Obama is Jar-Jar Binks!")
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“What looked like a sawed-off shotgun, your Honor, was just a big salami my client was carrying.”

Yeh...then the salami went off. Well, I wouldn't vote to convict...

9 posted on 06/16/2009 10:19:50 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Poor criminal gave himself a bad case of “kneesels”, but he could have given himself a case of “smallcox”.

On the other hand, he probably wishes he had given himself just a case of “toelio”.


10 posted on 06/16/2009 10:38:00 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: earlJam

Around 4:45 a.m., a man approached a bread delivery driver,how much money did thet think the guy had?LOL


11 posted on 06/16/2009 10:43:23 AM PDT by Vaduz
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You can’t make this stuff up!!!! LOL


12 posted on 06/16/2009 10:53:50 AM PDT by lula ( If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?)
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To: lula

Definitely 2 more examples that need to be removed from the gene pool.


13 posted on 06/16/2009 11:01:49 AM PDT by pistolpetestoys (Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend;inside a dog it's too dark to read.)
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To: DeFault User

This has to go on the Dumbest Criminals show. People do the stupidest things!


14 posted on 06/17/2009 1:36:59 AM PDT by dixie sass (Change? What change? Where?)
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I never branish a weapon when asking directions. Except that one time.


15 posted on 06/17/2009 5:09:58 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Always remember to put your bandanna on after you ask for directions. It’s supposed to confuse bread truck drivers, don’t you know.

Then you use the weapon as a visual aid or pointer.


16 posted on 06/17/2009 8:49:23 PM PDT by DeFault User
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