Posted on 03/03/2005 7:13:08 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
A convenience store clerk who shot and killed a robber Wednesday night had a relative who was shot and killed while working at a different store a few months ago.
Around 11 p.m. Wednesday a clerk at Midtown Food Mart on Berryhill Road near the intersection of Freedom Drive shot and killed a suspected robber.
According to police, Jamie Mareno, 26, had just robbed the store when the clerk shot him. Mareno died on the way to the hospital. Investigators say so far the clerk has not been charged.
According to a police report, Mareno was armed with a handgun.
A clerk working at the store Thursday said the owner and his son were working during the robbery. He was not sure which one pulled the trigger.
He also told us about the relative who was shot during a robbery in January at the Midtown Food Mart on Shamrock Road. He said the relative died after spending a month in the hospital.
"They aren't hurting anyone. They're doing a good thing having a store in the neighborhood,” one regular customer of the store said Thursday. “With their uncle being shot, they're just fed up.”
"Who wants to be robbed? They could have been killed,” said customer Latoya Graham. “You can't trust people with guns."
Police are still looking for a suspect in the January incident where the clerk was shot and killed. It will be up to the DA to decide if charges should be filed in Wednesday’s shooting.
This is the second time in less than a week police are investigating a robbery that ended with a suspect shot and killed.
Three masked men armed with guns stormed a shoe store on East Sugar Creek Road and took cash from the register and started to rob customers. The manager pulled out his own gun and shot two of the robbers. One of the suspects was killed and the other was seriously hurt.
Police are still looking for the third robber and the manager is moving out of the state because he is worried about retaliation.
You have to be able to reaad Charlotte Observernease.
I stopped 10 years ago.
Maybe the perp's luck ran out when he tried robbing a different convenience store...
I am seriously impressed, especially the part about no one being charged. If only other DA's would get the word. Thanks for the info.
This article appears to have been written by a fourth grader with limited writing skills.
Looks like it's paying off, too.
Robbers family will sue the store for loss of income from loved one (even if he was stealing it)
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