Man shot during robbery, police say
Posted on 06/28/2002 8:51:26 AM PDT by mhking
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.
I don't know. There is some pretty stiff competition this month.
Don't forget the fireworks guys from yesterday who accidentally disposed of a lit M-80 by throwning it into a box full of M-80s. Also the two Chinese who just asphixiated themselves by leaving the car running in a closed garage in an attempt at an air-conditioned nooner.
I was on TDY in Tampa back in '85 and there were 4 or 5 of us in a rental van. One of the guys wanted to stop by a donut shop on the way back to the hotel and pick up something for a quick late night snack. We had initially parked on the side of the building and after he went into the shop, we had a great idea for a practical joke. We pulled out with the lights off and positioned the van to make a "grand entrance/getaway". As he exited the shop, we sped toward him, slammed on the brakes, threw the side door open and grabbed him, threw him into the van and then sped off. We thought it was hilarious.....
An hour or so later, one of the guys used the van to go buy a pack of cigarettes and noticed a cop following him into the 711 parking lot. When he came out, there was a second car and they followed him back toward the hotel. As he approached a 4 way stop, 2 more cop cars screeched to stop in front of him to block his escape (with guns drawn) and a police helicopter hit the van with a spotlight. He tried to play dumb about the whole thing until they searched the van. As fate would have it, we had tie down rope and a roll of duct tape in the van that were used ealier in the day to secure some equipment."Uh oh...Houston....we have a problem"
Needless to say, somebody in the shop got the tag number of the van and called it in as a kidnapping. The van was a rental, registered to an Air Force Officer on TDY in the area. This meant the OSI was immediately involved, they in-turn were kind enough to notify our Commander to inform him of the situation.
The moral of this story.....don't screw around near a donut shop! ;o)
It seems the Chinese are into asphyxiation....
Who is he calling the victim? I thought he was the suspect. Now he is a victim because the shop owner shot him? I hope he just mis-spoke..
Though an idiot has been taken out of society, I'm afraid that at 57 he may have already contributed to the gene pool.
Darwin only counts when someone dies stupidly before they have a chance to reproduce. With this guy, we don't know.
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