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Robbery suspect shot and killed by Dollar General Store manager; family speaks out (TN.)
WATE 6 News ^ | Feb 28, 2013 | STEPHANIE BEECKEN

Posted on 03/02/2013 7:41:23 AM PST by EXCH54FE

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - The grandmother of a man shot in killed Wednesday outside a Dollar General Store in East Knoxville is sharing her thoughts on the incident and how her grandson will be remembered.

Wednesday night just before 8 p.m. there was a shootout between a robber and a store manager.

According to the Knoxville Police Department, an armed robber went into the Dollar General Store on Asheville Highway and the robber demanded money from the store's safe.

The store manager complied. The shooting occurred seconds later outside the store. The shooting happened in front of the store in the parking lot.

Multiple shots were fired. The robber was killed. As of now, police are not revealing the shooting victim's identity.

Mary Robinson is the grandmother of the robbery suspect. She found out her grandson had been killed two hours after the shooting occurred.

"Oh the pain, I can't describe the pain when they told me that. I just froze I couldn't do nothing, I just froze," said Robinson.

According to the Knoxville Police Department, the armed robber did get money from the store, but then only a few seconds after the robbery both the store manager and the robber went outside when an altercation occurred.

The robber was shot, then ran away. His body was found a block and a half away on Holston Drive.

The robbery suspect's grandmother wishes the store manager didn't shoot.

(Excerpt) Read more at wate.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
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To: PLD

did he also steal some skittles?was he wearing a hoodie? skittles for trsyvon!


21 posted on 03/02/2013 8:04:05 AM PST by Craftmore
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To: EXCH54FE

Why is it that it’s always the grandmother who speaks out - no mother or father saying he was an angel? Mom and dad missing? In jail? Drugs? Don’t care? Or can’t lie with a straight face to the press?


22 posted on 03/02/2013 8:04:16 AM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: EXCH54FE
"Buy a shotgun."


23 posted on 03/02/2013 8:07:20 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: struggle
Agreed.
another promising career as a rap “singer” destroyed by an evil capitalist store manager.
24 posted on 03/02/2013 8:14:30 AM PST by Tupelo (Old, Bald, Ugly, Fat and Broke in Arizona)
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To: EXCH54FE

The victim was the store manager. The robber was the perpetrator not the victim.


25 posted on 03/02/2013 8:20:58 AM PST by em2vn
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To: Rome2000

One less democrat voter.


In your dreams. Being a democrat means you never stop voting, even if you’re dead.


26 posted on 03/02/2013 8:31:00 AM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: EXCH54FE
Multiple shots were fired. The robber was killed. As of now, police are not revealing the shooting victim's identity

What this liberal media is actually saying is that they will not actively comment on the fact that the perp was black....Customary lying by omission. It's what they do.

Next we will see grandma telling us how young black whoever was "turning his life around and doing well in skool."

27 posted on 03/02/2013 8:31:20 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: EXCH54FE

manager will be fired within the next couple days


28 posted on 03/02/2013 8:31:56 AM PST by stylin19a
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To: EXCH54FE

manager will be fired within the next couple days


29 posted on 03/02/2013 8:32:14 AM PST by stylin19a
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To: Craftmore

Granny is trying to make acase like the thug Tryvon..just wait..


30 posted on 03/02/2013 8:34:01 AM PST by PLD
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To: Craftmore

Granny is trying to make acase like the thug Tryvon..just wait..


31 posted on 03/02/2013 8:34:14 AM PST by PLD
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To: EXCH54FE
"It's certainly not worth losing your life over $20, $30, $100 or so, so we always tell people to comply," said Knoxville Police Department Spokesperson Darrell Debusk.

Seems to me that's the advice they used to give airline passengers and crew members prior to 9/11.
Just sayin'

32 posted on 03/02/2013 8:35:27 AM PST by YankeeReb
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To: EXCH54FE

No word from his mother .

They don’t know if his father is his father or his uncle


33 posted on 03/02/2013 8:36:32 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: Rome2000
"One less democrat voter."

One MORE democrat voterS.

Sorry, but had to fix that quote for you. We just KNOW that his corpse(not the 0bama Marine kind) will be voting democrat, and more than once.

34 posted on 03/02/2013 8:37:33 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Lawgvr1955

You’re exactly right - in the early 90s my cousin owned a pawn shop in south Mississippi.....one afternoon his wife (who was a nurse at a local hospital) was working with him as she was off from her job when a young punk came in (already on bail for another shooting) and robbed them. He then made both get on their knees and killed them with gunshots to the head. That little SOB is now sitting on death row (I guess at some point he’ll be put to death).


35 posted on 03/02/2013 8:37:55 AM PST by BamaDi ("The definition of a racist today is anyone who is winning an argument with a liberal.")
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To: EXCH54FE
From the article:

"According to the district attorney's office, it is doubtful charges will be brought against the store manager based on the police investigation and evidence.

But the final decision should be made by the beginning of next week."

Which gives plenty of time for the race-baiters to mount their protest, at which time the local police will likely fold like a cheap Republican...

36 posted on 03/02/2013 8:38:49 AM PST by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: EXCH54FE

Another Obama FSA mutt bites the dust.


37 posted on 03/02/2013 8:38:58 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: PLD
Granny your grandson had a gun if i had of been the store clerk I would have shot him before he shot me.

I guess if he'd been background checked and the magazine on the weapon he used to hold up the store was limited to less than 7 rounds this whole tragedy wouldn't have occurred...</s>

38 posted on 03/02/2013 8:41:27 AM PST by YankeeReb
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To: EXCH54FE

How he will be remembered? I can tell her how he will be remembered. As an armed thug who got what the hell was coming to him.


39 posted on 03/02/2013 8:45:22 AM PST by Jeff Winston
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To: Lawgvr1955

Criminals love soft, compliant targets. They tend to avoid places that will get them deceased.


40 posted on 03/02/2013 8:50:01 AM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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