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Store owner, 81, shoots would-be robbers
By Charlie White
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The Courier-Journal
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TThree men were hospitalized — including a liquor store owner — after two men tried to rob him outside his store in the Shawnee neighborhood store late Tuesday afternoon, police said.
The liquor store owner shot them after they pistol-whipped him, said Officer Dwight Mitchell, a Louisville Metro Police spokesman.
None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, he said.
The owner was identified by relatives as James Wilson.
Police were called to Wilson’s Liquors, 3804 River Park Drive, just before 5 p.m. The owner was parking his car in a garage behind the business when the two men attacked him and tried to rob him, police said.
He then pulled a gun and shot at the two robbers, who ran off, Mitchell said.
Wilson was taken to University Hospital. He was discharged later Tuesday evening, according to a nursing supervisor at the hospital.
Police would not say how many times he shot the men or where they had been shot.
Officers later found one suspect five doors down from the liquor store. He also was taken to University Hospital.
The other suspect turned up at Jewish Hospital, Mitchell said.
No charges had been filed last night.
Reporter Charlie White can be reached at (502) 582-4653.
Store owner, 81, shoots would-be robbers
By Charlie White
[email protected]
The Courier-Journal
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/NEWS01/60606031/-1/rss
TThree men were hospitalized — including a liquor store owner — after two men tried to rob him outside his store in the Shawnee neighborhood store late Tuesday afternoon, police said.
The liquor store owner shot them after they pistol-whipped him, said Officer Dwight Mitchell, a Louisville Metro Police spokesman.
None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, he said.
The owner was identified by relatives as James Wilson.
Police were called to Wilson’s Liquors, 3804 River Park Drive, just before 5 p.m. The owner was parking his car in a garage behind the business when the two men attacked him and tried to rob him, police said.
He then pulled a gun and shot at the two robbers, who ran off, Mitchell said.
Wilson was taken to University Hospital. He was discharged later Tuesday evening, according to a nursing supervisor at the hospital.
Police would not say how many times he shot the men or where they had been shot.
Officers later found one suspect five doors down from the liquor store. He also was taken to University Hospital.
The other suspect turned up at Jewish Hospital, Mitchell said.
No charges had been filed last night.
Reporter Charlie White can be reached at (502) 582-4653.
