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By BILL BRYAN
Post-Dispatch
11/28/2003
A man who was robbed at gunpoint after pumping gas turned the tables on the gunman, police said, disarming the robber and then beating him with his own weapon.
St. Louis police said the incident occurred about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday outside the 7-Eleven at Gravois and South Jefferson avenues.
"He's a hero as far as I'm concerned," a police officer familiar with the case said of the robbery victim. "He said he wants to be a police officer and said he hopes this incident doesn't hurt him. I told him it won't."
The robbery victim declined to be interviewed.
The man identified as the disarmed robber, Michael Jackson, 19, of the 4000 block of Cook Avenue, was charged with first-degree robbery and was in satisfactory condition at a hospital.
Police gave this account:
A man, 24, had just gotten gas when another man with a gun approached and demanded money. The man in the car surrendered some cash, but the gunman began screaming and demanded more.
The victim told police he thought the robber was going to shoot him, so he fought back.
The two struggled and the pistol fired, but neither was shot. The robbery victim wrested the gun away and hit the robber at least twice on the forehead.
Police arrived to find the robber unconscious. The gun, which had been kicked away, was stolen by a passer-by.
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It's that last sentence that worries me the most
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By BILL BRYAN
Post-Dispatch
11/28/2003
A man who was robbed at gunpoint after pumping gas turned the tables on the gunman, police said, disarming the robber and then beating him with his own weapon.
St. Louis police said the incident occurred about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday outside the 7-Eleven at Gravois and South Jefferson avenues.
"He's a hero as far as I'm concerned," a police officer familiar with the case said of the robbery victim. "He said he wants to be a police officer and said he hopes this incident doesn't hurt him. I told him it won't."
The robbery victim declined to be interviewed.
The man identified as the disarmed robber, Michael Jackson, 19, of the 4000 block of Cook Avenue, was charged with first-degree robbery and was in satisfactory condition at a hospital.
Police gave this account:
A man, 24, had just gotten gas when another man with a gun approached and demanded money. The man in the car surrendered some cash, but the gunman began screaming and demanded more.
The victim told police he thought the robber was going to shoot him, so he fought back.
The two struggled and the pistol fired, but neither was shot. The robbery victim wrested the gun away and hit the robber at least twice on the forehead.
Police arrived to find the robber unconscious. The gun, which had been kicked away, was stolen by a passer-by.
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It's that last sentence that worries me the most
