Armed Robbery Suspect Shot, Craigslist Deal Gone Bad

By Bob Irwin

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USA –-(Ammoland.com)- The Gwinnett Daily Post reports 01-05-2018 in Snellville, Georgia, on New Year’s Eve Sunday an armed robbery suspect tried to rob a Craigslist seller of a cellphone.

Snellville police responded to reports of a male shooting into a vehicle in a Walmart parking lot on Scenic Highway, according to Detective Kevin Seay. They detained the suspected shooter to further investigate the incident.

“By the time I got there, the shooting victim was at Eastside Medical Center,” police said. “He was shot three times in the left triceps area. We were able to interview him, his brother, who was driving the car, and his cousin, who was a front-seat passenger.”

In the course of the investigation, police determined that the shooter was meeting with the armed robbery suspects, a pair of 21 year olds, to sell them a cellphone.

That’s when things went wrong.

“Basically, the person who got shot produced a firearm to rob the would-be buyer, but the buyer jumped …Read the Rest

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