Party Stork Clerk Ends Attempted Robbery With A Bang

By Bob Owens

A pair of armed robbers tried to knock off the Little Brown Jug Party Store last night in Roseville (MI), but one of the store employees wasn’t in the mood to be robbed.

The incident took place about 9 p.m. at the Little Brown Jug Party Store on Gratiot Avenue, south of Interstate 696 when the two men, with their faces covered and wearing gloves and hooded jackets, walked into the store and approached the cash register.

”The suspect in the light hoodie jumped up and stood on the counter and pointed a revolver at one of the employees,” Roseville Deputy Chief Donald Glandon said in the release.

“Another employee discharged 1-2 rounds from his handgun,” Glandon said, adding one of the robbers may have been struck by the gunfire.

The robbers ran out of the store, but on their way out, the attacker wearing a light-colored hoodie dropped his weapon, Glandon said. It is not known if the second robber, who was in a dark-colored hoody, had a firearm.

Witnesses told police the two ran through the parking lot and headed in the direction of Wildwood, west of Gratiot. A K9 was called in to help search the area, but was unable to …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms