Two Killed, Two Injured In Apparent Harlem Robbery Attempt (Victim fights back))

nypost.com ^ | August 13, 2009 | IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON, JOHN DOYLE and LUKAS I. ALPERT

[Free ThinkerNY]

A 72-year-old Harlem business owner turned Bernie Goetz on four would-be robbers this afternoon, pulling a pump-action shot gun from beneath his desk and opening fire, killing two and wounding the others, cops said.

The four men barged into Kaplan Bros. Blue Flame Corp. -- a restaurant supply company at 523 W. 125th St. -- around 3 p.m. and one of them pulled out a handgun and began pistol whipping an employee.

That prompted the owner to pull out the 12-gauge shotgun and fire three shots, striking all four men, cops said. The four robbers ran, but two collapsed to the ground just outside the store. One fell right in the doorway and was declared dead at the scene. The other was rushed to the hospital where he died.

The other two ran but were picked up nearby and hospitalized.

Public records identified the owner of the business and the building it is in as Charles Augusto Jr., 72, of Irvington, NY.

Witnesses described a wild scene as the four men came running out of the business, pursued by one of Augusto's angry employees.

[mylife]

Liberal JustAss?

[yorkie01]

Thank you Charles for showing down-to-earth common sense. I think your actions demonstrate the frustrations aired at the ‘townhall’ (joke) meetings. The PC crowd has been running the show way to long and have pitted the minority-anything (gays,tree huggers,snail darters,Katriniacs, etc.) against us. It’s time to kick the sob’s out of Washington, return government to the states and to let them know it’s no longer a career position!

[Palladin]

...and Obama thinks he gonna shuffle old guys like Augusto off to the death camps (which will have pretty names like “Shady Rest” or “Whispering Pines.”)

Have we got news for him and his “End-of-Life Counselors”!

[HiramQuick]

I would choose something like 3 shot. Nice compact pattern and knockdown/staydown capability is great at personal/property close range stuations. Doesn’t have to be a 12 gauge Mag either ....

Down and staying down. That is total intent.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I’m certain that if he had tried to register his weapon, he would have been denied.

And now, deceased.

[mylife]

A good reason NOT to live in NYC

[Blood of Tyrants]

And that is the great the great thing about a short barreled shotgun (Not short enough to be illegal, of course). At 15 feet, even bird shot is enough to be deadly.

[Blood of Tyrants]

No, read a bit closer. It said a store owner “turned Bernie Goetz”.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

How’s the weather in Texas???

[Blue Jays]

Shotguns definitely need to be aimed. At typical combat distances, the shot is striking the target in an area approximately the size of a paper dessert plate.
The pump shotgun is a simple and wonderfully effective tool.

[Ret Cop 187]

What a wonderful story

[mylife]

76 and clear right now. It was like 90 today and partial clouds.

[Blue Jays]

It is my sincere hope that the elderly shopowner is not charged with a crime for defending his life.
Crazy things can happen when New York liberal politicians are nearby to a television camera.

[G Larry]

It was unclear if Augusto was licensed to carry the gun.

Yes, he is “licensed”!

BY THE 2ND AMENDMENT!!!

[P-Marlowe]

Three shots, two dead and two wounded? Now that’s shooting!!!

No, THAT'S GUN CONTROL!

[The Cajun]

Yes, he is “licensed”!
BY THE 2ND AMENDMENT!!!

Can't be said any better!
Too bad the old dude didn't have an extended magazine, two or three more shells would have finished the job nicely.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Huh....much like MN.

We can’t grow home veggies because it’s been so bleepin’ cold all summer.....

[ETL]

It is my sincere hope that the elderly shopowner is not charged with a crime for defending his life. Crazy things can happen when New York liberal politicians are nearby to a television camera.

Besides this communist nut job, there is Charlie "The Red" Rangel and Al Sharpton.

"ex"-Black Panther Charles Barron...

Charles Barron: "My immediate response is 'take off the ex,' because I’m still a Panther at heart. And I’m proud to be a Panther because the Black Panther Party fed children breakfast. It had a clothing drive for struggling people in our communities. It led the research drive around sickle cell anemia, a rare blood disease peculiar to black people. As far as the guns and the actions with the police, that wasn’t even a major part of our program. That was for self-defense against police brutality."

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2003/06/local/barron
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):

http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

[bareford101]

can a small woman handle one?

[mylife]

I gave up on veggies here, its generally too hot for anything but peppers.