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"1 Dead In Comic Store Shootout"
NBC5 ^ | 4 November 2006 | unknown

Posted on 11/06/2006 2:51:14 PM PST by Lurker

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ROSELLE, Ill. -- A shooting inside a DuPage County comic book store has left the owner of the store injured and an alleged intruder dead.

In a news conference Friday, police said the intruder may have been looking for collectable coins.

Police described the incident as a real shoot out, as the two men emptied their weapons into each other.

Both men are in their 40s.

The owner of the store was taken to Alexian Brothers Hospital with a gunshot wound to his arm.

The alleged robber, who is reportedly from Hanover Park, was pronouned dead.

More details from WBBM:

Roselle Shopkeeper Kills Robber In Gunfight

Bob Roberts Reporting

ROSELLE, Ill. (WBBM) -- A 40-year-old parolee from St. Louis was shot dead during a gunfight with the owner of a Roselle collectibles store, who was wounded.

WBBM's Bob Roberts reports.

A digital surveillance video caught the shootout that occurred inside the Westlake Cards, Comics and Coins store, at 1234 W. Lake St., in Roselle. After reviewing the video, DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett declined to press charges against the 49-year-old shopkeeper, a resident of Hanover Park, in the death of ex-convict Geoffrey Webb.

“The question is whether or not this store owner had the right to protect himself and to have a weapon,” Birkett said. “He does. He has a (Firearm Owners Identification) card. He's got that right under Illinois law.”

Roselle Police Chief James Kruger said the surveillance video shows Webb entering the store just before 10:30 a.m. Friday, placing a black bag on the horseshoe-shaped counter and speaking for several minutes with the shopkeeper, whom authorities refused to identify.

Kruger said Webb suddenly pulled a gun from the bag, in which duct tape and handcuffs were later found, and vaulted the counter.

“There was clearly an imminent threat to the store owner's life, and clearly the intruder was in the commission of a forcible felony,” Birkett said.

The shopkeeper told police he had been robbed when the store was located in Glendale Heights, and since then has kept a handgun on his desk in the event of robbery. He was standing next to the desk when Webb vaulted over the display cases.

Kruger said the video appeared to show Webb firing first, wounding the shopkeeper through an arm with one of his shots. The shopkeeper wounded Webb several times, including the apparently fatal bullet to the head."

“The question is whether or not this store owner had the right to protect himself and to have a weapon,” Birkett said. “He does. He has a (Firearm Owners Identification) card. He's got that right under Illinois law.”

The shop owner should have the right to protect himself, Firearm Owners ID card or not. The idea that without possession of that ID card the outcome could have been different for the store owner is preposterous.

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