Spend a lot of time down around that area, hunting grounds every fall. Lots of family and friends down there in Gunnison and Redmond.
Good outcome in a bad situation, I just hope the woman that was forced to pull the trigger is handling it well. Pulling a robbery down there would be flat out risky any time as about 2/3rds of the folks are usually armed in one fashion or another. Looks like the guy was aware of this and tried to time it right and still lost.
I doubt very highly that the guy was a local. Although there is a growing drug problem among the younger folks down that way, so it's possible he was a resident crack head I guess.
Side note:
Neat folks thataway-
You ought to see the Centerfield cemetery on Memorial Day. Takes us a couple hours to put up all the flags in the morning(literally two full size pick-up beds full of them go up, and it's a small cemetery.) And the towns in the whole county litterally shut down the day the Triple Duece unit came home from overseas.