Posted on 09/01/2009 10:55:42 AM PDT by marktwain
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - Jackson police have identified the armed burglar who was shot and killed while trying to break into a closed business Sunday.
The man who died in the shooting was 33-year-old Lorenzo Rodriguez Jones of Jackson.
The shooting happened at the Gipson Discount Foods, in the 14 hundred block of Highway 80, near Terry Road Sunday evening. When officers arrived, they found Jones with a gunshot wound to the chest, at the rear of the grocery store.
Assistant Police Chief Lee Vance says he was breaking in when an employee who lives in the building, opened fire with a shotgun. Police say Jones has an extensive record which includes arrests for business burglary, possession of cocaine and armed robbery.
No charges have been filed.
Burglary and robbery are dangerous occupations”
I love shotguns.
No fancy ballistics striations, lands & grooves to look at.
#4 buckshot can solve most needs out to 80 yards.
“The shooting happened at the Gipson Discount Foods, in the 14 hundred block of Highway 80, near Terry Road Sunday evening.”
This is just a terrible neighborhood, never go unless necessary, daylight, and armed.
The employee lives in the store! Well surprise, surprise, surprise!!!
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The perp/thug is dead.
I think I need a tissue, news to do your heart good, PING.
Here’s one that will warm the cockles of your heart.
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