In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Woman fends off robbers with shotgun
Josey1
Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
Woman fends off robbers with shotgun
By Wayne Crenshaw
Telegraph Staff Writer
CARY - A woman thwarted two masked, gun-wielding, would-be robbers Tuesday after they entered her country store and demanded money.
Bleckley County Sheriff Harold Lancaster said Andrea Howell, owner of Willis Howell Grocery, stopped the robbers when she pulled a shotgun on them.
"She's an elderly lady, but she's quite feisty," said Lancaster.
The two men entered the store about noon wearing ski masks, and one had a gun. When they demanded money, Howell pulled out a shotgun. The robbers ran out of the store.
Howell, 67, is a widow and operates the small, country-style store on Willis Howell Road.
Lancaster told her pulling the gun was the wrong thing to do, but he also said he couldn't blame her, either.
"To a certain extent, I admire her," he said. "She said 'They just wasn't going to come in here and take what I had.'"
The two men fled on foot. Tracking dogs from Dodge Correctional Institute were called to the scene, and the dogs tracked the suspects for about 100 yards from the store, where Lancaster believes they got in a car and fled.
He said there are no suspects, but the case is still being investigated.
http://www.macon.com/mld/telegraph/3721658.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By Wayne Crenshaw
Telegraph Staff Writer
CARY - A woman thwarted two masked, gun-wielding, would-be robbers Tuesday after they entered her country store and demanded money.
Bleckley County Sheriff Harold Lancaster said Andrea Howell, owner of Willis Howell Grocery, stopped the robbers when she pulled a shotgun on them.
"She's an elderly lady, but she's quite feisty," said Lancaster.
The two men entered the store about noon wearing ski masks, and one had a gun. When they demanded money, Howell pulled out a shotgun. The robbers ran out of the store.
Howell, 67, is a widow and operates the small, country-style store on Willis Howell Road.
Lancaster told her pulling the gun was the wrong thing to do, but he also said he couldn't blame her, either.
"To a certain extent, I admire her," he said. "She said 'They just wasn't going to come in here and take what I had.'"
The two men fled on foot. Tracking dogs from Dodge Correctional Institute were called to the scene, and the dogs tracked the suspects for about 100 yards from the store, where Lancaster believes they got in a car and fled.
He said there are no suspects, but the case is still being investigated.
http://www.macon.com/mld/telegraph/3721658.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
Staff Report
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
7/23/2002 11:11 pm
A Sparks nightclub owner used a knife and gun to fend off a maintenance man suspected of attacking her, police said Tuesday.
Karen Carvajal, owner of the Oasis nightclub on Victorian Avenue, suffered minor injuries to her face and arms in the skirmish about 10 p.m. Monday, Sparks police Sgt. Chad Hawkins said in a statement.
Carvajal said the maintenance man attacked her after she complained about the quality of repairs he was making in the club, which was closed. The man punched and slapped the woman in the face and knocked her to the ground, according to police.
The club owner grabbed a knife and swung it at the man, possibly cutting one of his arms.
When the man continued his attack, the woman took a handgun from her purse and fired a warning shot. The woman, who has a concealed weapon permit, did not believe her shot struck the man, who fled.
Anyone with information is asked to call Sparks police dispatch at 353-2231 or detectives at 353-2225. http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2002/07/23/19942.php
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878