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Clerk shot in leg at local store
By John Young, The Porterville Recorder
PORTERVILLE - It was business as usual this morning at Sherwood Handy Market, even though just hours earlier a shooting occurred during a robbery attempt.
Tulare County sheriff's detectives said on Monday night a clerk was shot in the leg and there was an exchange of gunfire outside the store as the would-be robbers fled, empty-handed.
Detectives said they received reports at about 9:30 p.m. of a shoot-out at the store at 1907 W. Morton Avenue in Porterville. Deputies were told two men wearing red clothing walked into the market and demanded money from the clerk.
When he did not respond quickly enough, possibly due to fear, they shot him in the leg. The clerk, whose name was withheld by investigators, was treated at Sierra View District Hospital.
As the bandits fled the store, a juvenile who was inside, angry about the incidents, chased the two men into an adjacent field and drew a gun, firing one round at them as they fled.
The robbers fired back momentarily, and then they fled.
Detectives said the juvenile male was later arrested for negligent discharge of a firearm and booked into a county juvenile detention facility.
Store owner San Aroush said this morning that the clerk is "OK now."
"He continues to be in stable condition," said Lt. Donna Perry of the sheriff's department.
Aroush, of Porterville, said Monday's incident was the first robbery he's experienced since he bought the store about three years ago.
"The person who had it before me said he never had any robberies either," Aroush said.
Sheriff's detectives are also investigating a robbery and brandishing a weapon that occurred Monday afternoon at Springville Avenue and Bennett Street in Porterville.
A 13-year-old boy said he was riding his bicycle when two other youths approached him. One kicked him off his bicycle, and the victim said he was chasing them with a wrench in his hand when one brandished a knife.
Deputies said they interviewed two suspects in the incident.
http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/06/18/news/local_state/news10.txt
By John Young, The Porterville Recorder
PORTERVILLE - It was business as usual this morning at Sherwood Handy Market, even though just hours earlier a shooting occurred during a robbery attempt.
Tulare County sheriff's detectives said on Monday night a clerk was shot in the leg and there was an exchange of gunfire outside the store as the would-be robbers fled, empty-handed.
Detectives said they received reports at about 9:30 p.m. of a shoot-out at the store at 1907 W. Morton Avenue in Porterville. Deputies were told two men wearing red clothing walked into the market and demanded money from the clerk.
When he did not respond quickly enough, possibly due to fear, they shot him in the leg. The clerk, whose name was withheld by investigators, was treated at Sierra View District Hospital.
As the bandits fled the store, a juvenile who was inside, angry about the incidents, chased the two men into an adjacent field and drew a gun, firing one round at them as they fled.
The robbers fired back momentarily, and then they fled.
Detectives said the juvenile male was later arrested for negligent discharge of a firearm and booked into a county juvenile detention facility.
Store owner San Aroush said this morning that the clerk is "OK now."
"He continues to be in stable condition," said Lt. Donna Perry of the sheriff's department.
Aroush, of Porterville, said Monday's incident was the first robbery he's experienced since he bought the store about three years ago.
"The person who had it before me said he never had any robberies either," Aroush said.
Sheriff's detectives are also investigating a robbery and brandishing a weapon that occurred Monday afternoon at Springville Avenue and Bennett Street in Porterville.
A 13-year-old boy said he was riding his bicycle when two other youths approached him. One kicked him off his bicycle, and the victim said he was chasing them with a wrench in his hand when one brandished a knife.
Deputies said they interviewed two suspects in the incident.
http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/06/18/news/local_state/news10.txt
