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Posted on 05/27/2005 7:17:31 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A clerk at Mike's Liquor on Kemp Boulevard shot a fleeing robber in the leg after chasing him into the street and being threatened with a stolen liquor bottle, Wichita Falls police said.
The suspect, with a bullet lodged above his knee, managed to keep running, dodge another bullet and escape the clerk, darting into a nearby neighborhood, Sgt. Van Dotson said. The wounded suspect was found at a home on Buchanan Street and arrested.
The incident started some time after 6:30 p.m., witnesses said. A man entered Mike's Liquor, picked up a bottle and ran out without paying, police said.
The clerk chased him into the middle of Buchanan wielding a .38-caliber revolver. Witnesses heard the clerk yelling at the suspect, telling him to put the bottle down or he'd shoot if he had to.
The suspect raised the bottle over his head in a threatening manner, several witnesses told police.
"He (the clerk) shot him once in the back of leg," Dotson said. "The bullet almost came out the front of the knee."
The suspect put the bottle down but kept running.
"He never hit the ground and just grabbed his leg," said Donald Brownlee, one of three employees at the Kemp Taco Mayo who watched the chase and shooting from the restaurant's windows. "That's all adrenaline there. I can't believe he kept running."
The clerk shot one more time but missed as the suspect ran through the Taco Mayo parking lot. Brownlee said he heard the bullet ricochet off a nearby building.
The suspect ran into the nearby neighborhood. Dotson said he walked up to a resident's house asking for medical attention. He said the residents there helped him and called an ambulance. He was transported to United Regional Health Care System's 11th Street campus for non-life- threatening injures.
"He must've really wanted that liquor," said Adam Sivils, another employee at the Taco Mayo. "I've never seen anything like that."
The suspect faces possible robbery charges, Dotson said. The clerk was not arrested, but his actions could be investigated by the district attorney's office.
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The first rule of life for snatch and run thieves: "Never, Ever, bring bottles to gunfights."
The first rule of life for snatch and run thieves: "Never, Ever, bring bottles to gunfights."
Violating the above rule can result in catching a severe case of "knee-sels".
If the assailant was a minority and the victim a white watch for a law suit.
This particular clerk needs to get a bigger gun...
AND load up with hollowpoints. :) Cor-bon, Hydra-Shok,Gold Dot or even the garden variety Winchester brand sold at your local Wal-Mart.
I guess you can say the clerk was providing that extra special personal customer service that is so lacking among retail staff these days. It may be that the slogan for the company was: Greet them with outstretched arms...the kind that shoot bullets.
I think the clerk will get nailed, especially since the suspect was fleeing and was no longer a danger to the clerk at that moment in time, maybe in Tx will be different.
"He never hit the ground and just grabbed his leg," said Donald Brownlee, one of three employees at the Kemp Taco Mayo who watched the chase and shooting from the restaurant's windows.
This particular clerk needs to get a bigger gun...
He needs to learn to shoot.
Translation: The clerk's second shot missed. Unless the perp was Neo or Morpheus, I doubt he did much dodging...
This is the part that I don't like, when people are in a situation where they are shooting down the street. It would be too easy for an innocent bystander to get shot.
I am; however, glad that he shot the perp. All over a bottle of beer. LOL This guy better go to AA when he gets out of jail. ;-)
No, the clerk was trying to recover stolen property.
Legal cover for the clerk.
I think the shooter is in for a heap of trouble, according to Texas Law.
The clerk will regret not having put the bullet between the creep's eyes.
Hope you guys are right and the Clerk has no problems from the law.
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