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Mr. Pierre was armed with a Smith & Wesson handgun when he went to get food at a deli near his home around 4:40 a.m. Friday, the police said.
So when the two men, Jermaine Johnson, 28, and Kaiison Lewis, 23, climbed into his Mercedes as he stood outside, Mr. Pierre did not hesitate to jump into the back seat, gun drawn, to confront them, the police said, describing surveillance video and witness accounts.
After a brief, close-quarter confrontation in the car, the two would-be assailants ran back to their parked Acura sedan, with Mr. Pierre in pursuit, the police said. He fired several times into the car, the police said, killing Mr. Johnson and Mr. Lewis, who was seated in the passenger seat with bullets in his pocket and a 9-millimeter handgun nearby.
Detectives said they believed that the men were not strangers to one another and that the attempted robbery might have stemmed from an earlier, unspecified affront.
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