Posted on 04/28/2013 5:40:12 PM PDT by marktwain
Sylvia Armen doesn't remember much about Saturday's deadly encounter with Andrew Moore, a customer-turned-assailant at Armen's House of Music in Bethel Park. But what she does recall is frightening.
"He wanted to look at guitars. He didn't ask for any money," the 72-year-old said Saturday evening, after being treated for injuries and released from UPMC Mercy hospital.
And then, seemingly unprovoked, Mr. Moore pounced, clubbing her on the head. Just as suddenly, police said, Mr. Moore was dead, shot and killed by Mrs. Armen's husband, Alfred, 73, after a brief but violent struggle inside their store late Saturday morning.
Mrs. Armen and police both said Saturday that the motive for the intrusion and attack didn't appear to be robbery. And Mrs. Armen said neither she nor her husband recognized the 31-year-old Venetia man -- not an acquaintance and not a former customer, she said.
Her account mirrored the one given by Bethel Park police Chief John Mackey: The man stayed in the store -- a fixture at 5920 Library Road for nearly two decades -- for just a few minutes, appearing to browse. He then went outside to his vehicle, and came back in with some type of wooden club, Chief Mackey said. He described the weapon as "an old-fashioned nightstick."
The intruder attacked Mrs. Armen, causing head injuries. After that, feeling light-headed, "I went and sat down" in the office, she said, while her husband jumped to her defense. A tight-quarters scuffle ensued between the intruder and Mr. Armen, when the shopowner pulled a revolver and shot his attacker dead, the chief said.
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I like nighttime stories that have happy endings. I’m glad this happened in a place where civilized people are allowed to defend their loved ones with guns. There are some places, Hitleresque places, right here in the former America where the government would prefer the elderly couple to be defenseless and dead.
LMBO!
A rhapsody with a revolver.
How about a title of: “Criminal brings club to a robbery, victim brings a gun: Guess who won?”
“Criminal went Bong on victim; victime went Bang on criminal”
or “My Bang beat your Bong”
It occurs to me that with so many of the good guys walking around with concealed weapons and using them, we might see a decrease in the number of bad guys in this country yet.
Only if they start wandering out of the cities and off into the sticks.
Ray Charles almost did that once...in The Blues Brothers Movie.
Doesn't say outright if this guy was blind.
And Mrs. Armen said neither she nor her husband recognized the 31-year-old Venetia(n) man -- not an acquaintance and not a former customer, she said.
I didn’t mention anything about his being blind, but it does say he didn’t recognize the “intruder”.
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