Store Clerk Arrested for Shooting Shoplifter

By Jenn Jacques

Just weeks after his wife was shot in the stomach shot during an attempted armed robbery in the Spanaway, Washington convenience store he owns, Min Kim came face to face with a shoplifter.

“I am scared. I’m scared of everybody who is walking actually right now. Whoever just walks by I am frightened,” Min Kim admitted.

His wife, still recovering from the gunshot wound she sustained on February 18th, was no doubt on Kim’s mind when Jakeel Mason, 21, entered the store and allegedly took pepperoni and cigarettes. After realizing he was being robbed, Kim confronted Mason and punched him, demanding he leave the store.

“I grabbed him by his jacket. Do not leave here so I can have some moments to call the cops and everything,” said Kim. “As soon as I see him I pulled out my gun out and he stopped everything and he raised both hands. As soon as I see he is no threat I put my pistol back.”

It could have ended there, but that’s when everything fell apart for Kim.

“After reviewing the evidence, it appears that the victim was never a threat,” sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

Surveillance video from the store shows Mason was leaving …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms