Three shops, one owner moved to seclussion......
I know three (EX)shopowners
The first incident, three underage punks, from well to do families, looking for some excitement in the other whys boring been given everything lives. Decide to rob a gunstore. Two try to distract owner while third tries to load a shotgun, the owner hearing the bolt close on shell draws identifies the threat and shoots the kid now tring to bring the muzzle down. Owner survived, having gone thru three or more tours in southeast Asia with out ever having to fire a shot, and also twenty years in law enforcement never having to fire a shot, he has become a hermit and won't deal with people at all.
A pawn shop, owner always had a big goofy dog, when dog goes off bodies start bouncing off of walls. I must say even in his sixties _______ is the man I want on my side in a fight, he is hell on wheels when started. He decideds the pawn shop is to exciting, so retires again, first retirement out lawenforcement. Of the three incidents I know of, in his shop, the only one that truly scared him was when the dog as it started snapping somehow had the leash in it's mouth, and the six foot leash anded up on the floor in about six inch pieces, and what scared him was what if the dog had went off on someone not a threat, there was no way he could stop the dog! Another day I pulled in, to his parking lot it sounded like someone was banging on a huge gong, the dog had gone off, there was threat, and ------was doing such a good job of thowing the guy out he forgot the steel door now somehow shut opened inwards, after the fourth or fifth gong that I heard, the guy some how managed to hold onto the door enough to get it opened so when he was thrown the next time he went thru it, last time he was seen was cloud chasing his friend down the road trying to jump into the moving car.
The Third is the sadest as Jerry died of the beating, and there is little chance of finding the perp.