Posted on 09/03/2013 2:36:03 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
Mo. Man Tries to Stick Up Clerk Who Also Happens to Be a Four-Deployment Iraq War Vet — Guess Who It Doesn’t End Well For
Bad idea: holding up a store clerk who happens to be proficient in firearms.
Jon Lewis Alexander. (news-leader.com) Worse idea: holding up a store clerk who is not only proficient in firearms, but who also happens to be an Iraq war veteran and a former prison guard and private investigator.
Jon Lewis Alexander, 54, is no ordinary store clerk. He has worked several “high risk” jobs and served four tours of duty in Iraq during his 30 years in the U.S. military.
And his training shows.
Video surveillance from Saturday night captures the moment a would-be thief entered the Marionville, Mo., store where Alexander works. The thief hesitates for a moment and pulls a gun — but not fast enough to dissuade Alexander from pulling his own Walther PPX 9 mm handgun and sticking it in the hapless thief’s mouth.
No one was hurt and no shots were fired. The following surveillance footage comes by way of the store’s owners, Max and Jeannine Dawson:
Alexander said the man walked in smoking a cigarette, which he was promptly told to put out. The thief then reached for his gun and demanded “all the (expletive deleted) money,” News-Leader.com reports.
The veteran reacted quickly, throwing down the thief’s arm. Alexander tehn drew his own weapon and, according to the report, threatened to “blow his (expletive deleted) head off.”
Pistol at his side, the thief backed away slowly and then bolted from the store. The store clerk remembers being amused by the fact that he “didn’t even bother holstering his weapon.”
Dawson fully supports Alexander’s handling of the situation, saying “I think it’s a great thing.”
Meanwhile, the store clerk explains that he never fired a shot because the thief’s weapon was never pointed directly at him.
“If I had seen the actual barrel of the gun, I would have pulled the trigger,” he said. “My life wasn’t threatened.”
He adds that he didn’t immediately tell his wife, Pam, about the incident because he didn’t want to upset her. However, she eventually saw a copy of the surveillance footage.
“It took her a while to calm down,” he said. “But I got all kinds of lovin’ when she came home.”
The store’s owners have since turned the video over to the police. Law enforcement officials have not yet caught the suspect but they hope for a quick arrest.
The ending ain’t happened yet. To be continued.
Couldn’t have been one of holder’s people. NAH, that would be profiling.
Kinda hard to miss at that range.
It wasn’t in this case.
Aw, I hate when that happens.
White Hispanic at large!
Good.
The left wants to take guns from the good guys, and leave them in the hands of the criminals. Don’t let them.
/johnny
Stunning video, it wasn’t a black man.
We need to clean him out of our genen pool.
Shouldn’t need a second round.
hope they don’t arrest the guy.
in today’s world you never know what’s twisting someone’s undies.
Well, my beeber is stunned to say the least.
LOL!
His mistake was in leaving him to rob again. Maybe next time the robber will kill the clerk, who might be a helpless little old lady, or a teenager at his first job, or a young father with a new baby.
This clerk failed society by not firing even a single round.
Even if the robber is captured, the time he spends in prison will come out of the public purse, money that could have been used for other things: maybe things that could save lives. But perhaps one or two million dollars will be wasted to provide the robber a place to live, food to eat, and medical care.
The price of a bullet can do so very much, but only if that bullet is used.
Did he bring a knife to the gun fight? Some days it just don’t pay to get out of bed.
The video is wonderful. I love happy endings too. Sniff.
My opinion.... potential robber/murderer/rapist, etc drew a gun and should have been exterminated. Store clerk held his hand down swiftly, then slight pause and quickly put gun in perp’s mouth, no doubt surprising him. Perp was slow. Problem is extending your gun can get it tangled up or knocked away too. What if perp came up with blade with his dangling left hand? Draw elbow back, gun close to chest and fill perp’s chest cavity with lead and follow up one in face. All one movement and 1.5 seconds. The ideal solution.
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