Drizzt
March 25, 2003, 06:46 PM
Clerk has close call with robber
BY DAPHNE DURET
dduret@herald.com
As she lay face down between the cash register and the merchandise aisles, a gun pointed at her head, all store clerk Carol Barrera could think of was her children.
Just moments earlier, two men wearing ski masks had stormed into the Redland Grocery at 26400 SW 187th Ave -- guns drawn, demanding that Barrera lie on the ground while they forced another store clerk, Donna Drotar, to empty the cash register.
''I didn't think I was going to live,'' said Barrera, her eyes welling up with tears as she stood at the very same spot where she feared she would lose her life a few hours earlier.
Someone who saw the scene alerted the store owner, who then challenged the robbers and exchanged shots with them, police said.
Barrera identified the owner as David Anderson.
The gunmen left in a four-door silver Nissan, possibly an Altima or Maxima, police said.
A few minutes after police arrived on the scene, they found the body of a man they think was one of the robbers at the corner of 256th Street and 187th Avenue, about 10 blocks north of the store.
Both women said that the owner's son, John Anderson, had played a key role in saving their lives.
They suggested that he is the one who traded shots with the robbers.
''If John had not done what he did, I would not be here today,'' Drotar said.
Still at large: the other robber who held up the two women at gunpoint, and possibly a third man involved in the robbery, police say.
As for Barrera, who has only worked at the Redland Grocery for three weeks, she returned to work the next day and still calls the store ``a great place to work.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/5466611.htm
BY DAPHNE DURET
dduret@herald.com
As she lay face down between the cash register and the merchandise aisles, a gun pointed at her head, all store clerk Carol Barrera could think of was her children.
Just moments earlier, two men wearing ski masks had stormed into the Redland Grocery at 26400 SW 187th Ave -- guns drawn, demanding that Barrera lie on the ground while they forced another store clerk, Donna Drotar, to empty the cash register.
''I didn't think I was going to live,'' said Barrera, her eyes welling up with tears as she stood at the very same spot where she feared she would lose her life a few hours earlier.
Someone who saw the scene alerted the store owner, who then challenged the robbers and exchanged shots with them, police said.
Barrera identified the owner as David Anderson.
The gunmen left in a four-door silver Nissan, possibly an Altima or Maxima, police said.
A few minutes after police arrived on the scene, they found the body of a man they think was one of the robbers at the corner of 256th Street and 187th Avenue, about 10 blocks north of the store.
Both women said that the owner's son, John Anderson, had played a key role in saving their lives.
They suggested that he is the one who traded shots with the robbers.
''If John had not done what he did, I would not be here today,'' Drotar said.
Still at large: the other robber who held up the two women at gunpoint, and possibly a third man involved in the robbery, police say.
As for Barrera, who has only worked at the Redland Grocery for three weeks, she returned to work the next day and still calls the store ``a great place to work.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/5466611.htm