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Sheriff: Clerk shoots, kills two men attempting to rob store
wtkr.com ^ | 23 May, 2012 | Reed Andrews

Posted on 05/23/2012 12:18:32 PM PDT by marktwain

Two men are dead after they allegedly beat up and tried to rob the clerk at a general store on Acorn Hill Road in Hobbsville.

The victim is in the hospital for some pretty serious bruising.

Two men stormed into the general store around 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

They put their large guns in the face of the store owner and demanded money.

The clerk was hit with the guns and then kicked repeatedly on the floor.

That’s when police say he was able to grab a gun he had hidden underneath the register and he shot at the suspects.

One was hit in the stomach, his body was found near a red car.

The other ran away, but didn’t get too far; he died just a quarter mile down the road on Acorn Hill.

The sheriff’s office says the two robbers fit the description of a duo that’s been robbing Duck Thrus in the area lately.

They aren’t sure if they’re the same suspects.

Police have not been able to identify either of the robbers or find their getaway car.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; defense; robber; va
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To: Jack Hydrazine
the store clerk shot behind his back blindly

From his Duck Thru blind?

21 posted on 05/23/2012 1:09:10 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
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To: marktwain

http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/Lawmen__Store_Clerks_Shoots__Kills_Two_Robbery_Suspects_152801895.html

be sure to read the comments


22 posted on 05/23/2012 1:09:22 PM PDT by sigmashooter
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To: sigmashooter

Great comments.


23 posted on 05/23/2012 1:56:36 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: mamelukesabre
He shot one in the stomach and the other one ran away and died? Is this a case of “two birds with one stone”? What the heck was he shootin? 44 mag?

I'm thinking one of these:


24 posted on 05/23/2012 2:00:45 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
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To: marktwain

I found pic’s of the dead guys.

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/north_carolina/suspects-killed-by-store-clerk-named

They were probably good kids that were killed only because they were Blacks.


25 posted on 05/23/2012 2:09:27 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: marktwain

They were just turning their lives around as baggers at a local supermarket.


26 posted on 05/23/2012 2:12:05 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: sigmashooter
One comment at the link:

If EVERY crime victim would do like Mr Ammann then we could use prisons to give a place to live to homeless folks. Oh the money we could save if criminals were dead!

27 posted on 05/23/2012 2:16:07 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: sigmashooter

It’s a great loss to the world. Apparently, according to someone who knew these two fine young men: “they both played the drums very well”.


28 posted on 05/23/2012 2:17:22 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: marktwain

Good shooting!!!


29 posted on 05/23/2012 2:18:31 PM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

LOL! Exactly!


30 posted on 05/23/2012 2:23:45 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Good shooting, Citizen. Civilization thanks you.


31 posted on 05/23/2012 2:43:58 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Blueflag
It's very rural. Nice area, good people generally.

Hobbsville, NC

32 posted on 05/23/2012 3:07:59 PM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: marktwain

Can anyone tell me WHERE this actually happened?


33 posted on 05/23/2012 3:47:45 PM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: MortMan

It appears to be Hobbsville, NC, about 8 miles south of the southern border of Virginia.


34 posted on 05/23/2012 5:30:14 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Lurker

Come on down to North Carolina and you will find Duck Thru convenience stores all stores over


35 posted on 05/23/2012 6:14:01 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: marktwain

"I'm going to say it like I see it: Quinton and Eddie Felton were hunted down like rabid dawgs. They were shot in the skreet. They were racially profiled. They were just in da sto to buy some skittles and ice tea. We demand that the store owner is arrested for murdering these two young chillun'!!! These self-defense laws are rasis!"

36 posted on 05/24/2012 7:34:08 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (In the post-Zimmerman world, it may become prudent to carry a drop weapon if you CCW.)
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To: Gator113

yep you found photos of the would be robbers in this black on white robbery that turned into a citizen killing the robbers. Now the police are looking for the getaway driver


37 posted on 05/26/2012 4:52:03 AM PDT by dennisw
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