Posted on 10/19/2011 9:26:13 AM PDT by DCBryan1
EAST NAPLES — A clerk at a landmark East Naples corner store shot and killed a man Tuesday as he attempted to rob the family-run shop and flee with her 1-year-old daughter.
The man, whose name was not released, demanded money from Elizabeth Easterly, a clerk at Del’s 24 Hour Food Store, and then grabbed a stroller that held Easterly’s baby, said Del Ackerman, the store’s owner and Easterly’s grandfather.
Easterly, 22, was alone during a shift change, running the shop with her 1- and 2-year-old daughters there, Ackerman said.
“I almost lost my two babies,” Ackerman said of his great-granddaughters.
The children were unharmed. However, a bloodied stroller remained inside the front door for hours as investigators gathered evidence and interviewed witnesses at the scene.
Around 3 p.m. a man entered the store, 2802 Thomasson Dr., “acting erratically,” Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Jamie Mosbach said.
As the man made for the front door with the child, Easterly did just as she had been taught — she drew a gun and aimed for the would-be robber’s knee, Ackerman said.
Bleeding, the man was then tackled outside the front door by a store employee who was about to start his shift and was walking toward the store when the shooting happened. A pool of blood and a bloodied pair of men’s athletic shoes marked where the man was held down until deputies arrived at the scene.
The man was transported to NCH Downtown Naples Hospital. He died from his injuries.
Deputies diverted traffic at the intersection of Thomasson and Bayshore drives for two hours following the shooting. Easterly could be seen inside the store as a swarm of patrol cars and investigators blocked off the scene. Both her husband and Ackermen had left the store less than half an hour before the attempted robbery.
Across the street, Nik Merlos and Gloria Angeles huddled under a bus awning with their 14-month-old daughter as deputies took down crime scene tape. Angeles had made a quick trip to Del’s around 2 p.m.
“I knew there were creepy people around, but not that bad,” said Merlos, who has lived in the Bayshore area for seven years.
In September 2009, three masked men pistol whipped a clerk at Del’s, robbed her at gunpoint, and then stole her car. It was a blemish in nearly half a century of serving the community that didn’t stop Ackerman from opening the doors again.
“They’ve tried to clean (the neighborhood) up a lot,” said Shannon Marcum, who lives two blocks from Del’s and grew up in the neighborhood. “They’ve succeeded somewhat.”
Three hours after the shooting, Ackerman questioned whether he would bounce back. Though his granddaughter and great-grandchildren were unharmed, the threat frazzled him.
“Under these circumstances? I would consider (closing),” he said. “I’d rather have life than money.”
Known as a neighborhood stalwart, he has kept the shop open 24 hours a day for 47 years, through hurricanes and families tragedies.
But with a dozen employees working to keep the store open round the clock, too many people would be affected by shutting the doors, he decided.
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As hard as we’ve worked in this town ... are we going to let one person of any kind knock my family and my babies out?” Ackerman said. “No way.”
The Sheriff’s Office is continuing its investigation. It is unclear if Easterly could face criminal charges in the shooting.
Could be a huge loss of blood as the femeral artery runs down to the knee.
Arteries are outbound from the heart...Pressure is greater...
Veinous flow is back to the heart and less pressure...
The girl hit an artery, and what they have said is true, you can bleed out from that just as easy as if she had shot the guy in the pelvic/groin/upper thigh area where the aorta splits into the two major thoroughfares into the legs...
As someone in an earlier thread stated that they hoped for “more” pain as they checked out...There would not be any additional pain as you bleed out, only the pain from the wound, if you keep moving it, all you’ll do is fade away as less oxygenated blood in your body passes into and through your brain to keep you conscious...
Takes about 3-4 minutes...Depending on the size and physical shape the bleeder is...
The training was bad, of course, but if the scumbag had the one year old in his arms, shooting low was a good call.
And the moronic idiots at Brady think that sign is a BAD THING?????
That was me and I didnt say that. I said, "Anyways, bonus points for a chick hitting the femoral artery and letting the perp bleed out OUTSIDE of the restaurant. I hope his last 2-3 minutes of conciousness while in excruciating pain, that he found Jesus and asked for forgiveness."
Getting shot HURTS (trust me)...getting shot in the knee REALLY HURTS. It was probably just incidental to him that there was ALOT of blood and that he was getting dizzy and sleepy.
Again: We should all hope that he found Christ in his last minutes. And we should all be glad he can no longer victimize the innocents.
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0210820MMA 10/14/2002 DISPOSED CRIMINAL TRAFFIC
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0402988CFA 10/06/2004 DUE FELONY
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0408149MMA 05/28/2004 DISPOSED CRIMINAL TRAFFIC
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0411335MMA 08/02/2004 DUE CRIMINAL TRAFFIC
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 1979 0427514TB-C 05/26/2004 DISPOSED TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0502088CFA 05/31/2005 DUE FELONY
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0504459CT 05/31/2005 DISPOSED CRIMINAL TRAFFIC
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0602157MMA 06/15/2006 DISPOSED MISDEMEANOR
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0602164MMA 06/15/2006 DISPOSED MISDEMEANOR HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 0
5/16/1979 0602196MMA 06/15/2006 DISPOSED
MISDEMEANOR HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0602202MMA 06/15/2006 DUE MISDEMEANOR
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0603236MMA 08/28/2006 DUE MISDEMEANOR
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0700522MMA 02/07/2007 DISPOSED MISDEMEANOR
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0902772CFA 11/24/2009 DUE FELONY
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0902840CFA 12/02/2009 DISPOSED FELONY
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 0903834MMA 12/02/2009 DUE MISDEMEANOR
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 1979 0947617TR 12/03/2009 DISPOSED TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 1102136CFA 10/12/2011 PENDING FELONY
HERNANDEZ, DANIEL RAMONT DEFENDANT 05/16/1979 1102464MMA 08/29/2011 DUE MISDEMEANOR
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Keep in mind, this is only in ONE county in FL. He came from TN, where he has more records of arrests.
Hmmm, he doesn’t look white. Perhaps the typist needs to have more lessons.
Good grief. For being a career criminal he sure wasn’t very good at it.
That's what I was thinking. Until I noticed the attribution I was thinking it was a pro-gun group that sponsored it. lol
Good advice, but I would add that it is ~really~ hard to do. In the aftermath of a crisis when things suddenly go from frantic to quiet, and you're coming down off an insane adrenaline surge, the urge to talk it out with somebody -anybody- is overpowering. You get the shakes from the adrenaline, and your mind is racing as it tries to make sense of what probably only lasted a few moments. Talking is part of how the brain processes the chaos and make an orderly record of what you've just been through. Again... excellent advice, but it's important to realize that people often just can't shut up, even when they know better.
“The article never mentioned if the robber was armed.
No....but he was “legged”. :) “
Post of the day!
As Ron White says: “I had the right to remain silent, just not the ability.”
also,officers are trained to solicit info from people in this situation by pretending to be their advocate/buddy/pal.
on the flip side, officers involved in shootings are typically afforded 24-48 hours of paid time off BEFORE having to answer questions from internal affairs.
God forgive me, but I am glad this mutha is dead.
Touch the chillin, and all bets are off, I'm opening up on full auto and I'm gonna keep shoutin' till I'm outta ammo.
LOL... Quite.
The following gives a completely different account of what happened. Apparently she didn’t shoot him while he was making off with the child, she shot him in the leg when he came behind the counter after her.
Then when she ran outside to get help, he grabbed the 1-year-old and attempted to make off with the baby, then gave up and attempted to leave. At that point he was tackled and probably lost a lot of blood. He appears to have died after reaching the hospital.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2011/10/19/1684803/clerk-kills-would-be-robber-who.html
“A convenience store manager grabbed a gun from under the counter and shot a would-be robber in the knee before the man scooped up the clerk’s infant daughter and tried to flee, sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday.”
“Daniel Ramont Hernandez, 32, died at hospital after the Tuesday afternoon shooting at Del’s 24-Hour Food Store in Naples, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. The child wasn’t hurt.”
“Hernandez came in store acting erratically, causing 22-year-old manager Elizabeth Easterly to be worried for her safety, according to the sheriff’s office. When Hernandez came around to her side of the counter, she grabbed a gun and shot him once in the leg.”
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