Detroiter Sleeps In Liquor Store With Shotgun To Prevent Robberies

CBS Detroit ^ | Oct 4, 2013 | Mike Campbell

[KeyLargo]

Detroiter Sleeps In Liquor Store With Shotgun To Prevent Robberies October 4, 2013 9:43 AM

Steve Bahoura said he's been forced to sleep inside his east side Detroit liquor store with his shotgun to make sure he doesn't get robbed. (Credit: Mike Campbell/WWJ Newsradio 950)

DETROIT (WWJ) - One Detroit business owner is taking matters into his own hands to make sure thieves leave his liquor store alone.

Steve Bahoura, who has owned the Van Dyke Liquor Market since the 90s, said he deals with several break-ins each year and he’s tired of it.

Most recently, Bahoura said someone broke into his business, located near I-94 on the east side, in broad daylight.

“They break through the back door at 9 o’clock in the morning,” he told WWJ’s Mike Campbell.

Bahoura said he’s caught the crook on surveillance video and turned the footage over to the cops, but so far there haven’t been any arrests. So, he’s personally offering reward money in hopes that somebody will turn the robber in to police.

“I’m willing to give a $2,000 cash reward to whoever turns him in for me,” he said.

Until that man is caught, Bahoura said he’s going to be sleeping in the store with his trusty shotgun, because there’s no other way to protect his livelihood. Bahoura has two words for anyone who’s thinking of robbing his store now: Watch out.

“I don’t want to shoot him but if somebody comes here, sure I will shoot him. I’ll shoot him and I will kill him. If I’ve got to shoot my gun, you’re not going to believe it, these bullets will go all over his body. So next time, the people won’t do that to anybody else,” he said.

[cripplecreek]

The justifiable Homicide rate in Detroit is nearly 2300% above the national average and that’s a good thing in my book.

[Netz]

Chaldeans are tough indeed, they're Iraqi Christians and they budge for no man or camel. If he kills an intruder he will go to jail and the intruder's family will get a financial reward from the courts. Better he move, take a hit on his losses and get the heck out of that city while he's still alive.

[cripplecreek]

Protecting your store is not laying in wait. If they do not break in they will not be shot.

Too many FReepers are behaving like perfect low info voters and pimping completely false assumptions.

You are correct, this guy will not be charged if he kills someone breaking into his store. Even before Michigan's stand your ground law, Michigan prosecutors generally didn't criminally charge these cases.

In Michigan cities cannot make their own gun ordinances, the state constitution rules supreme and every single city and municipality in the state is open carry. Open carry is even legal in our state capitol building.