"That was a cousin of mine."
Posted on 10/25/2005 1:09:46 PM PDT by Cagey
Surely this wasn't how the stickup was supposed to go down.
After making off with some cash, the robber was struck five times by two vehicles - first by someone police think was the suspect's own getaway driver and four more times by another driver who appears to have been trying to intervene.
Toward the end of the strange scene, the beleaguered bandit accidentally shot himself in the leg - then got hit a fourth time by the second driver, a woman who apparently knew the victim.
Here is the scene, as painted by police Inspector Vince Flores:
At 2:45 a.m. Sunday, a 33-year-old man was standing in a parking lot near N. 14th and W. Center streets. A 29-year-old man rushed up to him, pulled a handgun and demanded cash, which the victim handed over.
Meanwhile, a pickup truck - which police think was the robber's getaway ride - screeched up in reverse, but instead of spiriting the robber away, hit both the suspect and the victim, apparently by accident.
Then the pickup bolted, leaving the robber to limp away with the cash.
That's when the woman, behind the wheel of a Lexus, put the suspect in her sights, Flores said.
The woman rammed the robber with the front of her car.
Then backed up and hit him again. And again.
After the third hit, the man reached into his pocket to pull his gun, but shot himself in the leg. That's when the woman hit the robber with her car a fourth time.
Police showed up and arrested the suspected robber, who was not identified, and sent him to the hospital.
They also nabbed another man, who may have had nothing to do with the melee but was spotted running from the scene.
The suspect was listed in critical condition Monday at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital.
The robbery victim was listed in satisfactory condition, also at Froedtert, a hospital representative said.
The woman driving the Lexus is being sought.
Dude's name was "Lucky".
Bet it was Lootie!
You just don't hear stories like this every day.
Lets hope it is to give her a medal. I wouldn't bet on it... unfortunately.
bumping because of title alone, the story just compliments it
Justice prevails.
PING
"Lucky" sympathizes with a 'possum on a freeway.
I somehow thought that a Lexus would have more impact than that. 4 times she hit him and he's still alive? Are we sure that police Inspector Vince Flores wasn't watching a cartoon and got the action confused with the parking lot robbery?
Since her life was not in danger (nor anyone else) at the time when she hit him with her car deliberately, it is attempted murder plain and simple. Hope she goes to jail IMHO.
Call the cops on the cell phone and get him arrested? Yes!
Run him over 4 times? Nail her to the wall!
Wile E. Coyote lives.
That had to be a very poorly planned robbery! Let's see, you get two complete idiots, give one a gun, the other a pick-up truck, add in a really p.o'ed woman in a Lexus, and some poor schmoo who is standing in a parking lot at 2:30a.m., dude with the gun robs him, idiot partner leaves him, p.o'ed woman rams him, he shoots himself in the leg,....man, it doesn't get any better than that!!! Wisconsin's finest folks....must be from Chicago, or Detroit!!
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20 years ago an attorney told me of an epic struggle he watched between a judge with a bad case of "I'm Mr. Wonderful" and a rich lady in a big Cadillac who took the judge's reserved parking space. She was larger and louder than the judge and, ultimately, tougher. The attorney's glare by glare rendition of the duel was hilarious.
Swindell and Cheetum, PA, LLC., representing the robber, seek compensation for etc etc etc .......from the LEXUS driver....
Probably for not much longer if he don't mend his ways...at this rate he is gonna end up a grease spot on the highway of life.
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