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Jerome Ersland was back at work Thursday filling prescriptions and hoping that by taking the life of a 16-year-old boy two days earlier, he had saved others. Rubbing an oversized bandage on his left forearm, where he said he was grazed by a robber’s bullet, Ersland related details of what he said was a highly organized hit on the Reliable Discount Pharmacy. "I just regret anybody would get killed,” Ersland said. "But if I wouldn’t have been here, there would have been three people killed — the other pharmacist and the two techs.” He also recalls the angry voices of...

The gun was black. Or silver. Definitely big, though, and definitely a revolver. And it was pointed right at Daniel Ray's head. For the moment, that fact — not the gun's color or a description of the gunman — was all that registered in Ray's mind. The whole thing didn't compute. One moment he'd been about to lock up Joe's Pawn and Bargain Center at 1825 NE 23 and go get some dinner at a Chinese buffet, and the next, the gunman and his two accomplices had burst inside, demanding money and threatening him and his coworkers. For a few...

Police say a customer with a concealed-pistol permit shot one of two armed men holding up a Tulsa grocery. A man was shot Saturday evening as he and another man attempted to rob a Homeland store near 91st Street and Memorial Drive, police reported. Two men in dark clothing approached a register around 7:15 p.m and demanded money from employees as one of the men brandished a semi-automatic pistol, Capt. Brett Bai ley said. Shortly afterward, a customer in line nearby pulled out a revolver and shot the man holding the pistol, Bailey said. Police think the customer fired one...