Posted on 05/25/2007 7:16:35 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Police said a convenience store owner held a burglar's accomplice at gunpoint Thursday after an armed robbery at his store.
Authorities said a man entered a Shell station on University Parkway at about 5:11 a.m. and demanded money. After he received an undisclosed amount of money, the culprit demanded money from the safe, police said.
The owner, James William Overby, retrieved a handgun from a concealed location and pointed it at the culprit, according to Winston-Salem police. A short struggle ensued and the culprit fled on foot, police said.
Overby then encountered a second culprit waiting in the suspect vehicle and ordered him to the ground, according to police. Overby detained that person until police arrived.
The investigation is still under way.
Overby wasn't injured.
This Shell station is located on a busy multi-lane intersection facing the colliseum and the largest Goodwill Thrift store in the area. Behind it is one of the wealthist of Old Money neighborhoods; in front and to one side, projects and delapidated housing.
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This is the way the Chicago bank robbery should have went. But NOOOOO, only the criminals are well armed here.
Good on the clerk.
“I’m not even supposed to BE HERE today”
-Dante Hicks
I’ll bet they charge the store owner with impersonating a LEO.
Not likely. This is NC, not MA.
Yes, many contrasts along (WFU) University Parkway. We used to be in an office building (next to the Golden Corral) and had several purse snatchings before the company installed some decent security. One morning, a co-worker arrived in his second story office to find a bullet hole in the outside window (double pane - - it didn’t penetrate far enough to lodge in the gap, but it starred the outside pane and left a small hole at the center). Vacated the place when the 10 yr lease ran out in 1998. There was gunplay at the fast food places at the nearby intersection with North Pt Blvd from time to time during the wee hours, a security guard at the “BIG K” store up the road was murdered by a shop-lifter he nabbed, and there was a police standoff with an apartment dweller on the other end of Brownsboro road who had begun to take potshots at passing pedestrians and motorists (an apartment around the corner from the minimum security state prison near Cherry St and Brownsboro intersection). Yet, 99% of the time we go back and forth on all these roads with little fear of trouble. As you indicate, they run through an area of great contrasts.
Hopefully the getaway driver will rat out the other dickhead.
Well, I live in NC and think it's entirely possible. (Remember, we did give the world Nifong)
Goodguys = 2
Badguys = 0
I recall, perhaps erroneously, that the security guard-shoplifter shooting happened during the first one or two weeks of the WalMart opening up there. Who knows, we may well be covering two separate incidents, considering the area. What I remember is the guard following the shoplifter out the doors and getting killed - over a pair of shoes. Sad.
Years ago I worked with a temp who “stayed” in gov’t supported housing off of University Pkwy about halfway between downtown and the colliseum. He told me it was nothing to be sitting with a group of guys watching TV or something and someone pipes up with the notion to go rob a store. The one day I drove him home he asked if I wanted to come in for a while and I declined as politely as I could, thanking my lucky stars for my dark tinted windows. I stuck out in that neighborhood like a sore thumb.
“I recall, perhaps erroneously, that the security guard-shoplifter shooting happened during the first one or two weeks of the WalMart opening up there. Who knows, we may well be covering two separate incidents, considering the area. What I remember is the guard following the shoplifter out the doors and getting killed - over a pair of shoes. Sad.”
I know it was the Big K (before it closed, left a big hole in the “anchor position” and was finally replaced recently by a multi-screen cinema). My memory is hazy too, but what sharpened it was the fact that one of the private exit roads out of the parking lot was renamed “Maurice Williams St” in honor of the deceased security guard, and I drive by the place several times a week. Now that you mention it, I think the incident did happen soon after the Big K’s grand opening. Seveal retail chain big box stores have opened and failed in that general area over the past decade, especially in the shopping center at the corner of University Pkwy and North Point Blvd.
Not likely. This is NC, not MA.
Well, I live in NC and think it’s entirely possible. (Remember, we did give the world Nifong)
Yes, but eventually his colleagues were sufficiently embarassed to boot his weasily behind out the door, and NC judges and juries are not aghast at the notion of prudent self-defense. That’s one of the many positive features of this state. Meanwhile, the government in MA promotes lessons in “fisting” for pre-pubescent children, mandates recognition for perverted marriage from the bench of the Supreme court, and has yet to so much as apologize for judicial outrages that would make Nifong blush.
http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2000/Schools/fistarc.htm
Compare the disposition of the Amirault case in MA (”Fells Acres”) with the “Little Rascals” case in NC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_care_sexual_abuse_hysteria
http://www.answers.com/topic/fells-acres-day-care-center
http://www.answers.com/topic/little-rascals-day-care-center
Both of these cases were terrible miscarriages of justice. Where did the wheels of justice grind more slowly, however?
I stand corrected. I rarely drive that far north.
I remember an almost identical incident in El Paso a few years back. The security guard was an off-duty El Paso police officer earning Christmas money. Anyway, the EPPD did not want to pay the widow because he had not been killed on duty, which was the stipulation on the insurance. After a backlash from the citizens of El Paso, the police department relented and paid her. Interesting question though. Was he or was he not working to protect the citizens of El Paso? The shooter and his accomplice were arrested, BTW.
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