Posted on 03/02/2013 7:41:23 AM PST by EXCH54FE
KNOXVILLE (WATE) - The grandmother of a man shot in killed Wednesday outside a Dollar General Store in East Knoxville is sharing her thoughts on the incident and how her grandson will be remembered.
Wednesday night just before 8 p.m. there was a shootout between a robber and a store manager.
According to the Knoxville Police Department, an armed robber went into the Dollar General Store on Asheville Highway and the robber demanded money from the store's safe.
The store manager complied. The shooting occurred seconds later outside the store. The shooting happened in front of the store in the parking lot.
Multiple shots were fired. The robber was killed. As of now, police are not revealing the shooting victim's identity.
Mary Robinson is the grandmother of the robbery suspect. She found out her grandson had been killed two hours after the shooting occurred.
"Oh the pain, I can't describe the pain when they told me that. I just froze I couldn't do nothing, I just froze," said Robinson.
According to the Knoxville Police Department, the armed robber did get money from the store, but then only a few seconds after the robbery both the store manager and the robber went outside when an altercation occurred.
The robber was shot, then ran away. His body was found a block and a half away on Holston Drive.
The robbery suspect's grandmother wishes the store manager didn't shoot.
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did he also steal some skittles?was he wearing a hoodie? skittles for trsyvon!
Why is it that it’s always the grandmother who speaks out - no mother or father saying he was an angel? Mom and dad missing? In jail? Drugs? Don’t care? Or can’t lie with a straight face to the press?
The victim was the store manager. The robber was the perpetrator not the victim.
One less democrat voter.
In your dreams. Being a democrat means you never stop voting, even if you’re dead.
What this liberal media is actually saying is that they will not actively comment on the fact that the perp was black....Customary lying by omission. It's what they do.
Next we will see grandma telling us how young black whoever was "turning his life around and doing well in skool."
manager will be fired within the next couple days
manager will be fired within the next couple days
Granny is trying to make acase like the thug Tryvon..just wait..
Granny is trying to make acase like the thug Tryvon..just wait..
Seems to me that's the advice they used to give airline passengers and crew members prior to 9/11.
Just sayin'
No word from his mother .
They don’t know if his father is his father or his uncle
One MORE democrat voterS.
Sorry, but had to fix that quote for you. We just KNOW that his corpse(not the 0bama Marine kind) will be voting democrat, and more than once.
You’re exactly right - in the early 90s my cousin owned a pawn shop in south Mississippi.....one afternoon his wife (who was a nurse at a local hospital) was working with him as she was off from her job when a young punk came in (already on bail for another shooting) and robbed them. He then made both get on their knees and killed them with gunshots to the head. That little SOB is now sitting on death row (I guess at some point he’ll be put to death).
"According to the district attorney's office, it is doubtful charges will be brought against the store manager based on the police investigation and evidence.
But the final decision should be made by the beginning of next week."
Which gives plenty of time for the race-baiters to mount their protest, at which time the local police will likely fold like a cheap Republican...
Another Obama FSA mutt bites the dust.
I guess if he'd been background checked and the magazine on the weapon he used to hold up the store was limited to less than 7 rounds this whole tragedy wouldn't have occurred...</s>
How he will be remembered? I can tell her how he will be remembered. As an armed thug who got what the hell was coming to him.
Criminals love soft, compliant targets. They tend to avoid places that will get them deceased.
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