Posted on 01/23/2013 6:16:09 PM PST by marktwain
Hasib Kuric, a homeless immigrant from Bosnia, has a deal with the owner of the Exxon station on South State Road 7: Kuric can sleep in a U-Haul truck out back if he keeps watch over the place.
Just before midnight Monday, Kuric tried to do his part and alert the clerk about a pair of masked men he saw outside the store of the Hollywood gas station. But before he could tell the clerk to watch out, one of the would-be robbers began shooting at Kuric in the aisles of the store — and the clerk was firing back from behind the counter with his own gun.
The gunman was killed, shot in the face by clerk Leonard Carr. Kuric, miraculously, was unhurt.
“He saved my life,” Kuric said Tuesday as he sat under a tree near the store, still trying to absorb what happened the night before. “We are brothers now. We were reborn on the same day.”
Carr, 45, of Miami, said he was “too shook up” to talk about the incident Tuesday.
By late Tuesday, police had not released the name of the gunman who was killed. The other suspect, 19-year-old Joshua Stuart of Hollywood, was arrested a couple of blocks away from the station. He has been charged with armed burglary, attempted murder, and second-degree murder — for the death of his accomplice.
“There were a lot of rounds shot,” said Sgt. Pablo Vanegas of the Hollywood Police Department. “The clerk was a real cool cat.”
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
A very heart-warming story. I love happy endings.
Sounds like it is one less Obama voter in Hollywood, Fl.
The other won’t ever get to vote with all those felony-murder charges.
Nice story deflating the leftists gun control campaign.
Let’s try “Criminal Control”.
Unfortunetly, there are many more Obama voter’s left in Hollyweird. My family still lives there. I personally hate that place. Once was a lovely town, now just filled with garbage. Except of course, my family and friends.
Is Pablo an elderly beatnik?
Dems are after the guns of white middle class Americans - they don't give a damn about crime or violence. One look at Chicago is all it takes to know how dems feels about crime - they're part of the action.
Dems are after the guns of white middle class Americans - they don't give a damn about crime or violence. One look at Chicago is all it takes to know how dems feels about crime - they're part of the action.
Ah, how would New York's 7 round limit have affected this incident? Dead clerk and dead homeless guy?
If it saves only one life... ah, if it costs only one life.
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