Man shot during robbery, police say (Idiot robs a GUN shop armed only with a KNIFE!)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | June 27, 2002 | JAMAAL ABDUL-ALIM

[Atlas Sneezed]

Man shot during robbery, police say

By JAMAAL ABDUL-ALIM
of the Journal Sentinel staff

Last Updated: June 27, 2002

Greenfield - A man who tried to rob a Greenfield gun shop at knifepoint Thursday afternoon was shot in the chest by the shop owner, police said.

The victim, identified only as a 57-year-old Greenfield man, was taken to Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa, according to police.

Police have yet to interview the victim because the shooting left him unconscious, Detective Sgt. Paul Schlecht said.

Schlecht said later Thursday that the man's wound was not life threatening. The man's condition was not available Thursday evening from Froedtert.

Schlecht said the shooting took place at about 3 p.m. inside Buckhorn Guns, one of four businesses located in a plaza in the 2700 block of W. Ramsey Ave.

The parking lot of the plaza was surrounded by yellow police tape Thursday afternoon as police investigated the shooting.

Schlecht said he did not know what the suspect demanded but said there is nothing to indicate the account of the incident that the store owner gave police was not true.

He said the store owner, 44, shot the man once in the chest and that apparently no one else was inside the store when the shooting took place. The store owner was not injured.

Schlecht said the case is being referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney's office, which will review the actions of the suspect and the shop owner. A case review could happen today, he said.

Jessica Hansen of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.

Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on June 28, 2002.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Bang.

[Mike Fieschko]

Police have yet to interview the victim because the shooting left him unconscious

The store owner was left unconscious?

Wait ... you're calling the robber the victim?

[Tacis]

Doesn't make sense! Sure, there are many stupid people, especially in that part of the country and, as one nears South Dakota, but this story doesn't make sense. Jaamal, our newspaper writer, has left something out to be politically correct that would make this story more understandable. Don't know what it is. Doesn't every gun shop now have video tape surveilance?

[X-USAF]

Wait ... you're calling the robber the victim?

You beat me to it; the criminal is the victim.

So says the author, one JAMAAL ABDUL-ALIM.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Surely sometime in this 53 year old man's life somebody told him Never Take a Knife to a Gun Fight! The VICTIM is stupid and deserved what he got just for his stupidity.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Wait ... you're calling the robber the victim? - liberal press in action!

[norton]

Not too bad by current standards: only called the perpetrator a "victim" two times.

Failed to identify as Darwin award candidate however.

Also failed to mention race of either participant, wonder if that is laudable reserve, if it means both were same ethnicity, or that only the retard with the knife is caucasian?

[Don Myers]

I suspect that they are just calling him the victim of the gunshot. Perhaps, recipient might be a better word in this instance.

[jmax]

Taking a knife to a gunfight is not very smart......

[FreeAtlanta]

He was just trying to upgrade.