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You are granting too much weight to the grammar used by the reporter. The report does not say, "Took the perps gun away then proceeded to shoot him." The report says that both actions happened, but it does not discretely give an order of events.

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Delivery driver shot suspected robber
May 18, 2004
Marion County sheriff's deputies were investigating reports late Monday night that a pizza delivery driver shot someone who tried to rob him.
The man believed to have been the robber was found on the ground in a Far-Eastside housing complex, while the delivery driver turned up at the restaurant where he works a couple of miles away.
The shooting was reported at 11:04 p.m. Monday in the 3600 block of Long Wharf Drive by residents who heard gunfire and said they saw a Pizza Hut delivery vehicle driving away. The wounded man, who lay near several shell casings, had chest wounds and was initially reported in serious condition.
Six minutes after the shooting was reported, deputies found the delivery driver at the Pizza Hut restaurant at 8932 E. 38th St. Inside the delivery vehicle were two guns that may have been used in the shooting.
Deputies were looking into reports that the delivery driver and the robber exchanged shots, or that the two fought over a gun and the robber was then shot.