Fast-Drawing Tulsa Shopkeeper Kills Two Armed Robbers, Ends Crime Spree

By Bob Owens

As a trio of armed men rushed towards the entrance of Ryan’s Convenience Store Tuesday night in Tulsa, Okalahoma, the store clerk saw them coming, and was ready as they hit the doors.

They don’t call doorways the “fatal funnel” for nothing.

A Tulsa man seven months shy of ending his probation for a prior larceny conviction is one of two men identified by police as being shot by a store clerk during a failed robbery attempt Tuesday night.

Brian L. Powell, 27, was killed after a clerk at Ryan’s convenience store, 9948 E. 21st St., pulled out a handgun and …read more

Via:: Bearing Arms