Woman uses gun scare off robber at Izzy's in Hazel Dell

The Columbian ^ | September 3, 2010 | John Branton

[DakotaRed]

A woman who emerged from Izzy's Pizza in Hazel Dell with her 5-year-old son, and was confronted by a would-be robber, displayed her 9 mm pistol, scared the man off and then helped sheriff’s deputies find him, police say.

Deputies rushed to the restaurant at 1503 N.E. 78th St. shortly before 8 p.m. Friday after the woman called 911, said Sgt. John Horch with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.

The woman, a 30-year-old Clark County resident, told dispatchers she’d walked out of the restaurant to her car when a man approached and asked her to lend him money for gas.

When she declined, the man asked for $20, then came close and demanded money in a threatening tone, Horch said.

Horch said the woman reached in the driver’s door of her car, grabbed her semiautomatic pistol and put it in her waistband.

[DakotaRed]

Unrelated, but Hazel Dell, in unincorporated Clark County Washington, is about 5 miles from Vancouver's Esther Short Park where another young lady recently was assaulted with acid thrown in her face.

Fortunately, this was not the case this time.

[PowderMonkey]

That’s one thing I’ve warned wife and kids to be aware of. Good men know better than to approach a woman or a child unknown to them, in an isolated setting, especially at night, and ask for anything. The approach should be a red flag. It should be immediately detected at a distance, and a flight or fight response prepared.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks DakotaRed.