Posted on 01/06/2011 7:58:27 AM PST by DCBryan1
Posted: Jan 05, 2011 4:49 PM CST Updated: Jan 05, 2011 4:49 PM CST By Rusty Mizell
LITTLE ROCK – A pair of would-be robbers are in the hospital following an attempted armed robbery at a grocery store on Colonel Glenn Road.
Police were called to Joe's Grocery Store at 12223 Colonel Glenn Road just before 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Two men who were attempting to rob the store were shot in the chest and in the leg by the clerk and owner of the business.
According to a police report, the robbers pulled a gun and were taking money from the register, when the clerk pulled out a .357 handgun and shot both men. The suspects have not been identified.
While fleeing the store, the men dropped the stolen money and their handgun, and sped away in a maroon Oldsmobile, hitting a fence in the process.
A short time later, police responded to the intersection of Colonel Glenn and Interstate 430, where the men had summoned an ambulance to transport them to the hospital.
Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings says the owner of the store does not face charges related to the shootings at this time, and that the prosecuting attorney's office will ultimately decide if any charges will be filed.
Hastings says it is his opinion that the store owner was within his rights to shoot the men, because they had a gun pointed at him.
Hastings added that an investigation is underway to determine if the men have been involved in other recent robberies.
"We've had some other robberies around Christmas, before and after, that were two individuals that match this description. So we'll definitely be looking at that as well as some other factors that I'm not able to reveal at this moment", Hastings said.
No one inside the business was injured in the attempted robbery.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STATON BREIDENTHAL Police and paramedics prepare to transport one of two suspects Wednesday morning after they were reportedly shot by a grocery store owner during a robbery attempt in Little Rock.
>”They should both be in the morgue<”
I’ll assume the owner didn’t use Hollow Points in the 357.
If he did, one guy should be in the morgue and the other guy would be getting by on only one leg for the rest of his life.
A REAL MAN’s caliber! Not like these modern WUSSY ASS 9 mils.
Thanks!
I don't travel with mine....just keep near in the house..with hollow points.
For the price..it's an awesome pistol.
Yeah...this pistol is a hoot shooting at 100-150 yrds!! A damn hot round...to be sure.
I'm looking to go coyote hunting with it....Ha!!
I learned something today.
Looks like that cartridge has been rolling around your junk drawer for a while.
Glock has a model that shoots the .357 Sig. I don’t know much about this round but it might be worth a look.
"Hello, I'm Clint Eastwood and I approve this shooting."
I had a Ruger GP100 that served me well, but I regretted not getting one in stainless. Shooting 38s in it produced almost no recoil, and women shot it with no problem.
I would also recommend the S&W 686 exactly like the one pictured a few posts above. Great gun.
buy 2 guns ???
seriously, ya breakdown on the highway and have to separate, ya want both to be capable...
.357 vs .45 is a tradeoff of speed vs mass, no more no less...shot placement will git-r-done with both...
Something smaller..with hollow point ammo is the way to go.
lots of ladies are plenty capable and damned dangerous with full bore pistols...
And you noted I didn't say women can't handle those rounds..I just said most/many cannot. And as you say...practice is key.
FRegards,
P.S. I like the .357 with the ability to shoot the .38 Special round. My girls can shoot the .38 pretty accurately....
Well, the CZ-52 smaller, lighter, and cheaper than the Ruger Redhawk that I keep for the house...
Go with the .357 and load it with .38 specials for your wife. You might like the Ruger SP101.
I have a 3” barreled Stainless Smith and Wesson .357 loaded with .38+P ammo for the wife in the bedroom safe. It sits next to my Glock 21 .45 ACP with two extra mags. I would consider getting the short barrel for your wife as it is harder for a perp to wrestle the gun away from her and the shorter barrel length does not matter so much at the ranges the gun will be used. The drawbacks to the short barrel is greater muzzle blast and a shorter sight radius.
Shot-up 2 suspected in robbery identified
SPENCER WILLEMS
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Little Rock police identified two men suspected of attempting to rob a southwest Little Rock grocery store owner early Wednesday and then being shot by him.
Demario Lamont Harris, 18, and James Alex Parker, 22, both of No. 8 Par Circle in Little Rock, will face charges they attempted to rob Joe’s Grocery and Deli, said Little Rock police spokesman Lt. Terry Hastings. The men dialed 911 from an Interstate 430 on-ramp at Colonel Glenn Road to seek help regarding gunshot wounds police say were suffered during the robbery.
Harris, who had a gunshot wound in a leg, was listed in stable condition at Baptist Health Medical Center, Hastings said.
Parker was in critical condition at the same hospital, Hastings said, after he took gunshots in the arm and chest.
Hastings said the suspects initially gave investigators fake names and no formal charges had been filed. But, he said, that will change soon.
“They’re still under our guard at the hospital,” Hastings said. “They’ll be charged once they’re released.”
While Harris and Parker were receiving treatment Thursday, Joe Alley, the proprietor of Joe’s Grocery and Deli, was getting back to work.
“I didn’t need any time away,” Alley said just 30 hours after he emptied his .357-Magnum revolver at two robbers. “I feel safer here than I do anywhere else.” [NO KIDDING!!!]
Alley has owned and run the convenience and grocery store tucked away at 12223 Colonel Glenn Road since 1979, two years after moving to Little Rock from Florida. In those 31 years, he’d never been robbed, and to his recollection, he’d never even had a shoplifter.
The familiar routine of the store hadn’t been much disturbed until two men in black hoods, one of them carrying a black, 9mm, semiautomatic handgun, rushed through his doors just before 10 a.m. Wednesday.
“Everyone who comes here is very friendly. Very nice people,” Alley said. “I don’t think we’ve had to call the police more than twice in the past few years ... and then it wasn’t anything serious.”
Alley said he had little time to react once he saw the men running past the window and through his door. The 59-year-old store owner said he obliged a robber’s demands to “give me the money, give me the money” and he even opened the reserve money he kept beneath the counter.
When the gunman walked back out from behind the counter after having leapt over it, Alley said, he saw the man raising his pistol at him. Alley said he had heard stories of robbers shooting employees even after they had what they came for.
Alley said there was no fear or adrenaline pumping through him, just a lack of hesitation. He reached for his old .357, a gun that had sat under the counter ever since he took over the store, and started firing.
“In a situation like that, you can only react,” Alley said. “It all happened so fast. ... You just do what you have to do.”
Alley fired six rounds at the robbers and watched them stumble and bleed over his sidewalk out the front door, dropping their gun and the money along the way.
He said the robber he’d shot in the chest limped back to his car and took off toward the interstate on Colonel Glenn Road while the robber he’d shot in the leg slowly crawled along the pavement and around the store.
The robber in the car whipped around after a few blocks, Alley said, and sped back, driving through a wooden fence to pick up his partner.
“I guess he forgot about him,” Alley said. “He was halfway to the interstate and realized he forgot his buddy.”
Customers were steadily coming in and out of the store Thursday afternoon, asking Alley if he was all right. He said he wasn’t hurt. The closest thing to an injury he got was when he fired his gun, which packs a good kick, and an even louder bang.
“I couldn’t hear for the next two hours,” Alley said. “It’s not the kick on [the .357] that’s so bad; it’s the noise.” The blood and the damage had been cleaned up by the time customers visited the store Thursday. The only sign of the robbery was a bullet hole he’d put in the frame of his front door.
“That was the only one I missed,” Alley said. Hastings said police will be investigating Harris’ and Parker’s possible involvement with a chain of unsolved armed robberies that occurred throughout southwest Little Rock over the past few months.
“They’ll be looking to see if they were involved in those prior robberies,” Hastings said. “But it’s still too early to speak to that. We haven’t even had a chance to talk with them enough.”
It was the first cartridge I ever reloaded and the first cartridge I cast bullets for, because it's fairly easy to do both sucessfully.
Six shots, two targets, one miss?
Darn, I wish I shot that well at SASS.
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