Pittsburgh: Gas Station Clerk Fatally Shoots Robber

[1911ShooterTJ]

I just read this on a local news site available here: http://www.wpxi.com/news/13687045/detail.html

Police are hoping tattoos will help them identify a suspect killed during a robbery attempt -- and they are asking for your help.

Officials said the man tried to hold up the BP on Route 51 in Mount Washington just before midnight Sunday.

Police were unable to identify the victim through fingerprinting. However, he did have several tattoos.

Police are hoping someone will recognize the markings and be able to positively identify the man.

According to authorities, the man entered the gas station, pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded money and cigarettes.

The clerk emptied the register and stooped down to get the cigarettes.

When he stood back up, he pulled out a gun and shot the robber twice in the chest, killing him.

While some say the clerk's actions were risky, others applaud his courage to fight back.

Customer Octavia Ferrell said, "I think it's needed more these days because it's just too much of this going on these days. And actually if he hadn't shot them they might have shot him."

I say Octavia is right. Good job by this brave clerk. I hope he is not charged.

 

[General Geoff]

While some say the clerk's actions were risky, others applaud his courage to fight back.

Why do people make risk out to be a bad thing? Without risk (or perceived risk), there is no courage.

 

[Roccobro]

It sure is risky just to be a victim now-a-days too. Might as well stand up for morality and justice while your at risk.

Justin

 

[yhtomit]

Speaking of things it's risky to be, I'd put "sole eyewitness to an armed robbery" very low on What I Want to Do Today. The guy took a risk, but not a silly or capricious one.

timothy

 

[MarshallDodge]

WOOHOO! Two shots to the chest!

And people say that Iraq is an unsafe place.....

 

[romma]

Very Brave!! Kudos' to Captain Clerk!

 

[Henry Bowman]

While some say the clerk's actions were risky, others applaud his courage to fight back.

To reporter: Please define "some." 1? 2? The Brady bunch? Please identify them for us so that their credibility on other issues can be suspect too.

 

[pacodelahoya]

I would like to see how this turns out for the clerk. Pa is a "right to retreat state". Pittsburgh is not exactly gun utopia either. A year or two ago, they shut down a large part of the city cus some maintenance guy was shooting pigeons with an air rifle.(used to call em bb guns when I was a kid, never shot my eye out either)