Posted on 03/03/2005 7:13:08 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
A convenience store clerk who shot and killed a robber Wednesday night had a relative who was shot and killed while working at a different store a few months ago.
Around 11 p.m. Wednesday a clerk at Midtown Food Mart on Berryhill Road near the intersection of Freedom Drive shot and killed a suspected robber.
According to police, Jamie Mareno, 26, had just robbed the store when the clerk shot him. Mareno died on the way to the hospital. Investigators say so far the clerk has not been charged.
According to a police report, Mareno was armed with a handgun.
A clerk working at the store Thursday said the owner and his son were working during the robbery. He was not sure which one pulled the trigger.
He also told us about the relative who was shot during a robbery in January at the Midtown Food Mart on Shamrock Road. He said the relative died after spending a month in the hospital.
"They aren't hurting anyone. They're doing a good thing having a store in the neighborhood,” one regular customer of the store said Thursday. “With their uncle being shot, they're just fed up.”
"Who wants to be robbed? They could have been killed,” said customer Latoya Graham. “You can't trust people with guns."
Police are still looking for a suspect in the January incident where the clerk was shot and killed. It will be up to the DA to decide if charges should be filed in Wednesday’s shooting.
This is the second time in less than a week police are investigating a robbery that ended with a suspect shot and killed.
Three masked men armed with guns stormed a shoe store on East Sugar Creek Road and took cash from the register and started to rob customers. The manager pulled out his own gun and shot two of the robbers. One of the suspects was killed and the other was seriously hurt.
Police are still looking for the third robber and the manager is moving out of the state because he is worried about retaliation.
He'd better not be charged!
It's shaping up to be a pretty good week
Suspected? "Had just robbed the store.." When the robber's family sues for mental anquish etc. you will find out that Mareno was a former honor student who taught Sunday School classes and worked 2 jobs to pay for toys for tots. (This is after the liberal DA charges the clerk with murder.) MARK MY WORDS !!
Yep. Gun control = hitting what you aim at.
I wonder how many more have to go down like this before the word gets around that "armed robber" ain't a good career choice?
It's all about gun control. These folks are either going to the range or playing a lot of video games...
It's unfortunate that Law Enforcement may never be able to ID the perp.
So called "measures" since 9/11 still don't allow ANYONE to know exactly who's in the country.
I imagine that armed robbers will now be complaining on Democrat websites about the unfairness of quick shop clerks carrying guns and shooting back. This looks like a case for the ACLU, after they finish with Rumsfeld.
Gun Control: Holding the gun with both hands, taking aim, and pulling the trigger.
You nailed it.
Mark up another one for the good guys!
Wouldn't it be great if it was Jamie Mareno, who died in this robbery?
So who can you trust with guns Latoya?
This article is written terribly.
'The relative'?
Whose relative? The clerks? The people who owned the shop? The guy who was shot?
And the quote from the lady about people with guns, and guns being bad? Was she criticising the shop people or the guy who robbed the shop?
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