Posted on 11/22/2025 5:01:44 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Amale entered a 7-Eleven in Oklahoma City just before midnight Thursday and tried to buy burritos, beef sticks, and ice cream with a counterfeit $100 bill, according to a KOKH-TV news video.
But the female clerk wasn't buying the con.
What's more, the clerk said she was calling police, KWTV-DT reported — and she refused the male's demand that she give him back the counterfeit bill, Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police Department added to the station.
Then the thug reportedly got violent.
.....he grabbed his hands around my neck, and pushed me out of the counter space."
Knight added to KWTV that "at some point during this altercation, she pulled out a pistol and shot him." Police said the suspect — who also was carrying a knife — was shot in the stomach and that the entire attack was caught on video, the station noted.
The suspect — identified as 59-year-old Kenneth Thompson — fled the store and called 911, KOKH reported.
“Reporting he had been shot,” Knight told KWTV. “Although he was not forthcoming with what happened when officers first met with him.”
Thompson was arrested at the hospital and charged with assault and battery, threatening acts of violence, attempting to pass a fake bill, and a felony warrant for violating parole, KOKH said.
KWTV noted that he'll be transferred to the Oklahoma County Detention Center once he's released from the hospital.
As for Dilyard, police told KWTV that she suffered minor injuries and was not arrested; police confirmed to KOKH, in fact, that she's protected under Oklahoma's self-defense law.
Yet after all that, 7-Eleven fired Dilyard on Monday for using her gun...
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Oklahoma City is pretty lively.
https://www.news9.com/crime/police-launch-investigations-2-okc-shootings
Used to live near there in the 1970s
It wasn’t so wild back then
She was supposed to use “store items” to defend herself. Hit him between the eyes with a strawberry slurpy. LOL.
I lived on the South Side of Chicago in 1968. It was wild back then, but not nearly as wild as it became lately.
Yikes 😳
Leroy Brown was pretty bad back then.
That was the heyday of the Blackstone Rangers Federation, too. PC was just beginning to rear its stupid head back then. He wasn’t white, contrary to the Sonny & Cher cartoon.
I might have been beat up by a young Mr. T. Got beat up a lot for the crime of being white, AND a wise-a@@.
And she probably would have been dinged if she accepted the obviously fake C-note...I can’t remember the last time I got gas, or otherwise used a 7-Eleven store - now I know why....
Can anyone on this thread name one major USA retail corporation that allows non-security employees to carry concealed guns?
Of course not.
It would be impossible for that corporation to purchase basic liability insurance if it did.
What was in her purse was there for just such an emergency. If she and/or a customer had been killed, that would have raised their basic liability insurance as well.
Comes a time, you just have to say f@#$ it.
Nah, the QT’s down here in South Texas at least always have at a minimum 2 people in them at all times. Found out why when the 7-11 across the street from my usual QT got held up at gunpoint less than 40 seconds before I went in for my morning coffee one day. Something else they do, though I do not know if it is standard practice, is it have nevwr seen more than one person “on the floor” at a time during the overnight shift.
Have a friend that just got promoted here
I’ll check with her about local policy
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