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Robber killed in shootout with store owner
2nd suspect still at large
By Eric Louie
Record Staff Writer
Published Saturday, February 15, 2003
A midday armed heist of a south Stockton convenience store Friday turned into a fierce shootout that left one of the robbers dead, the owner, a neighborhood icon, seriously wounded and a clerk shot in the hand.
Neighbors who heard the violent burst of gunfire saw two men, guns in hand, bolt from the Sonora Street store and called police at 12:30 p.m. Officers arriving at the scene found the lime-green front wall of the Better Buy Market smeared with blood.
Inside lay store owner Darrel Deal, 62, with bullet wounds to the head and abdomen. His employee, Hector Lozano, 20, was hit in left hand by a bullet.
Police found the body of a man lying in a pool of blood about a block away on Grant Street, a .38-caliber Sig Sauer semiautomatic pistol still clutched in his hand. The gunman had been shot twice in the chest and once in the neck. [cont'd]
From: http://www.recordnet.com/articlelink/021503/news/articles/021503-gn-1.php
Courtesy of: http://keepandbeararms.com/default.asp
2nd suspect still at large
By Eric Louie
Record Staff Writer
Published Saturday, February 15, 2003
A midday armed heist of a south Stockton convenience store Friday turned into a fierce shootout that left one of the robbers dead, the owner, a neighborhood icon, seriously wounded and a clerk shot in the hand.
Neighbors who heard the violent burst of gunfire saw two men, guns in hand, bolt from the Sonora Street store and called police at 12:30 p.m. Officers arriving at the scene found the lime-green front wall of the Better Buy Market smeared with blood.
Inside lay store owner Darrel Deal, 62, with bullet wounds to the head and abdomen. His employee, Hector Lozano, 20, was hit in left hand by a bullet.
Police found the body of a man lying in a pool of blood about a block away on Grant Street, a .38-caliber Sig Sauer semiautomatic pistol still clutched in his hand. The gunman had been shot twice in the chest and once in the neck. [cont'd]
From: http://www.recordnet.com/articlelink/021503/news/articles/021503-gn-1.php
Courtesy of: http://keepandbeararms.com/default.asp
