Drizzt
January 6, 2003, 07:22 PM
Store owner shoots man during holdup
By AISLING SWIFT, Staff Writer
DURHAM -- A 29-year-old man remained in serious condition Friday, a day after being shot during the robbery of an X-rated video and magazine store where a robbery and a homicide had occurred before, police said. Ernest Bostic of 1212 N. Driver St. was in stable condition at Duke Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said. A warrant was taken out charging him with armed robbery and will be served upon his release from the hospital.
John David Woodall, 42, who owns Atlantis Video News at 522 E. Main St., was not charged. County records do not show he has a permit for a gun or has registered a gun. Lt. Norman Blake, a police spokesman, said he had no information about Woodall's gun.
The robbery occurred at 10:35 p.m. Thursday when a man entered the store, pulled out a revolver and demanded cash, police said. When Woodall opened the drawer to prove he had no money, police said, the man hit him in the head with the gun. Woodall then pulled out a gun and shot the man, police said.
The man fled and collapsed in the parking lot of the TNT convenience store, a half-block away at 500 E. Main St.
As police strung yellow tape around the crime scene, emergency medical technicians bandaged Bostic, gave him oxygen and strapped him onto a stretcher. After he was placed in the ambulance, a woman thought to be his mother ran up to rescue workers and rode to the hospital with Bostic.
Woodall stood outside his store and talked with police as a medical worker placed a gauze bandage on his wound.
On July 19, 1992, a man was hit on the head with a gun during a robbery outside the store, which opened that year. On Dec. 26, 1997, a clerk was shot twice in the abdomen when a robber fired three times, then fled with no money.
And on July 30, 2000, Rodney Odell Bryant, 26, a New Bern resident who was visiting friends, was shot and killed when three men approached their van in the video store parking lot and demanded money.
Last March, Raheem Demetrius Hunt, 19, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in a state prison on charges of second-degree murder and three counts of attempted armed robbery in Bryant's shooting.
On Friday, the store, a boarded-up white building marked "Videos $4.99" and "XXX," had a padlock on its red side door. No one answered the store telephone, and a woman answering the phone at a home listed under Woodall's name said he did not live there.
Records show Bostic, who has been charged with attempted robbery before, has convictions for larceny, breaking and entering, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He has a charge of possession of stolen goods pending against him.
Woodall's criminal record includes convictions for assault by pointing a gun, injury to personal property and communicating threats. When he was convicted of assault by pointing a gun in July, a condition of not going to prison was that he must not be convicted of assault, communicating threats or harassment.
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By AISLING SWIFT, Staff Writer
DURHAM -- A 29-year-old man remained in serious condition Friday, a day after being shot during the robbery of an X-rated video and magazine store where a robbery and a homicide had occurred before, police said. Ernest Bostic of 1212 N. Driver St. was in stable condition at Duke Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said. A warrant was taken out charging him with armed robbery and will be served upon his release from the hospital.
John David Woodall, 42, who owns Atlantis Video News at 522 E. Main St., was not charged. County records do not show he has a permit for a gun or has registered a gun. Lt. Norman Blake, a police spokesman, said he had no information about Woodall's gun.
The robbery occurred at 10:35 p.m. Thursday when a man entered the store, pulled out a revolver and demanded cash, police said. When Woodall opened the drawer to prove he had no money, police said, the man hit him in the head with the gun. Woodall then pulled out a gun and shot the man, police said.
The man fled and collapsed in the parking lot of the TNT convenience store, a half-block away at 500 E. Main St.
As police strung yellow tape around the crime scene, emergency medical technicians bandaged Bostic, gave him oxygen and strapped him onto a stretcher. After he was placed in the ambulance, a woman thought to be his mother ran up to rescue workers and rode to the hospital with Bostic.
Woodall stood outside his store and talked with police as a medical worker placed a gauze bandage on his wound.
On July 19, 1992, a man was hit on the head with a gun during a robbery outside the store, which opened that year. On Dec. 26, 1997, a clerk was shot twice in the abdomen when a robber fired three times, then fled with no money.
And on July 30, 2000, Rodney Odell Bryant, 26, a New Bern resident who was visiting friends, was shot and killed when three men approached their van in the video store parking lot and demanded money.
Last March, Raheem Demetrius Hunt, 19, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in a state prison on charges of second-degree murder and three counts of attempted armed robbery in Bryant's shooting.
On Friday, the store, a boarded-up white building marked "Videos $4.99" and "XXX," had a padlock on its red side door. No one answered the store telephone, and a woman answering the phone at a home listed under Woodall's name said he did not live there.
Records show Bostic, who has been charged with attempted robbery before, has convictions for larceny, breaking and entering, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He has a charge of possession of stolen goods pending against him.
Woodall's criminal record includes convictions for assault by pointing a gun, injury to personal property and communicating threats. When he was convicted of assault by pointing a gun in July, a condition of not going to prison was that he must not be convicted of assault, communicating threats or harassment.
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