Lake Waccamaw store employee fatally wounds man during robbery attempt(NC)

fayobserver.com ^ | 12 January, 2012 | Deuce Niven

[marktwain]

LAKE WACCAMAW - An attempted armed robbery at Waccamaw Outdoor Supply on Wednesday ended with the alleged robber critically injured from a single gunshot, Police Chief Scott Hyatt said. The suspect died hours later.

"A masked suspect came in with a weapon - not a gun, a weapon - and there was an exchange between the employee and the suspect," Hyatt said. "There were employees and customers in the store at the time. It was not a customer who did the shooting."

The suspect said nothing during the exchange with the employee, Hyatt said.

"He was shot once," the chief said of the suspect. "I'm not going to say where, not right now."

Hyatt would only identify the dead man as a 20-year-old. The man was initially treated at Columbus Regional Healthcare in Whiteville, and later transferred to New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington where he died.

Hyatt said the employee who shot the suspect pulled a gun from under the counter during a similar robbery attempt a week earlier.

"In that case, the suspect got one leg in the door, the employee went for the gun, and the suspect ran," Hyatt said.

Hyatt said he does not expect to charge anyone in Wednesday's shooting.

[Hoffer Rand]

Oh yes. He was 20 years old and they have the body.
No other information about his profile is available.
No name, either.

They're probably trying to track down his grandmother for the obligatory "he was a good boy, was turning his life around, just was in the wrong place at the wrong time, mixed up with the wrong crowd" etc. statement.

[IAGeezer912]

From USA Today yesterday:

For the first time in 45 years, homicide is no longer among the 15 leading causes of death in the United States, according to an analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-10/homicide-CDC-report/52498390/1

Could it be that citzens with guns are making criminals think twice and thus homicide are down?

[from occupied ga]

Sounds like Occupy Wall Street!

Exactly, except the occutards are too lazy to steal on their own. They want someone to do it for them.

[ExCTCitizen]

"A masked suspect came in with a weapon - not a gun, a weapon

what was the weapon... a fillet knife or a banana?

anyway the roibber is DEAD... good

[Tubac414]

Masked and a weapon good reason in my book to take a shot at them - It was not Halloween. Good for the employee