Posted May 20, 2018 5:44 pm by Comments

By John Falkenberg

RALEIGH, NC — A thug was hoping to make some easy money late last month in a crowded area in one of North Carolina’s most populous cities, but things didn’t work out too well for him, WRAL reports.

For his trouble, he got both shot and arrested — a sad end to anyone’s afternoon.

According to WRAL:

Jonathan Tyrone Peace, 28, has been charged with common law robbery in connection with the incident Thursday in the 300 block of South Blount Street around 3 p.m., police said. He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was rushed for medical treatment to WakeMed. Information about his condition was pending.

Police said Morgen Matthews, 23, was walking on South Blount Street when Peace tried to rob her. She fired her weapon to stop him from attacking her, police said. She remained on the scene until police arrived, authorities said.

A man who said she was Matthews’ boyfriend showed WRAL News a cell phone text from the woman as the event was unfolding. In it, she asks the man to come downtown because she had been attacked. Initially, witnesses at the scene had told WRAL News that the man and woman had …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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