Posted on 03/06/2010 4:59:34 AM PST by marktwain
The body of one of two men chased after a violent robbery at a small grocery Thursday night was found this morning at the Interstate 20-U.S. 61 interchange and authorities were trying to determine whether he was shot, jumped or fell from an overpass.
A second suspect, described, like the dead man, as Hispanic, was being sought by police in the robbery and assault at La Chiquita grocery store, 4002 U.S. 61 South, which triggered the chase and shootout.
Police received a call about the armed robbery at 8:41, said Sgt. Sandra Williams. “The caller reported two Hispanic males entered the business wearing ski masks. One was carrying an SKS assault rifle, and the other had a handgun,” Williams said.
After taking an undisclosed amount of cash, CDs and jewelry from the store, as well as a wallet and cash from a customer, the two fled the scene in a vehicle and headed north on U.S. 61 South toward Interstate 20, Williams said. A woman clerk at the business was hit in the head with the butt of a rifle during the robbery, then notified the store owner who jumped in his vehicle and chased the robbers, Williams said.
“There was a chase on the highway, which resulted in the suspects crashing out on the bridge,” she said. “The suspects got out of their vehicle and started firing at the business owner. And basically, between the suspects and the owner of the business, there was a shootout.” She declined to speculate on how many shots were fired.
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I respectfully suggest the cops should be the ones engaging in high speed pursuits and not some pissed off storeowner.
It doesn’t say it was a high speed chase. And it sounds like it was on a lightly traveled country type road.
Yeah thieves being chased by an armed store owner are going to obey all the traffic laws, thats why they crashed.
From the description of where it happened it could have happened in a small town similar to where I grew up. Lightly traveld roads, just a few cars an hour. Sensible drivers, who are used to dodging wide farm equipment, and who know how to drive.
Not city drivers, many of whom in my experence are too stupid to be on the road at all.
I grew up in a small town also, people died in car accidents there too.
Of course they did, but from the description here, and it is very imited, this doesn’t sound like the typical accident prone scenerio for rural drivers.
Thanks for signing your post dufus.
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