Store Owner Sees Robbery On Camera At Home, Goes To Store, Shoots And Kills Robbery Suspect

By Brandon Curtis

image via Ben Williamson

Via TTAG

At 4:33 a.m. on Monday, August 6, the owner of a small North Carolina business called American Beauty and Garden Center saw a robber break into his store from a monitor in his home. He called the police to report the intruder. The police also received an alert from an alarm monitoring service.

A few minutes later, the store owner called the police again and told the dispatcher that he had shot an intruder in the store. The suspect, later identified as 20-year-old Justin Anderson, was pronounced dead when the officers arrived on the scene.

According to police, Anderson had smashed through the front glass window to get inside. When the store owner arrived, the burglar ran out of the front door and was shot. He was found by cops behind the building.

Officers haven’t released any information about whether Anderson was armed, where exactly he was shot, or whether the business owner was taken into custody.

CJ Williamson, who owns a business in the same shopping center, expressed mixed feelings about the shooting:

“I never see anything like that around here. It makes me a little scared because I obviously …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation