Family Dollar Store Clerk Shoots Alleged Armed Robber

Police confirm there were several customers and three other employees in addition to the clerk inside the store at the time of the robbery.

But while store employees and customers ran to the back of the store, a 25 year old clerk stood firm and took aim at the threat standing in his store, shooting the man dead.

“This place has been robbed several times,” the clerk’s uncle said. “Right before Thanksgiving, they robbed him and even after he gave them everything, they still hit with him the gun.”

Employees claim the man had his hand inside his jacket pocket as if he was holding a gun. Police have recovered the surveillance tape from the store, but have not yet confirmed whether or not the suspect was armed.

Regular customers and fellow employees at the Family Dollar Store on Montgomery Road were quick to jump to the young store clerk’s defense.

“He just smiles and says, ‘How …Read the Rest

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