Open carry first responder shoots robber in Richmond Va. [View All]

[Tim01]

I have some inside info on this and the word is that the robber had shot the store owner and shot at others in the store. He lined them up against the wall and told them he was going to kill them, and was reloading. When an open carry guy(friend of the store owner) came in with a COLT SINGLE ACTION and shot the robber in the torso. That put the badguy down.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/crime/article/SHOT121_20090711-230802/279571/

A gunman who had wounded a shopkeeper and opened fire on several customers was stopped yesterday when another man shot him at the store in South Richmond, authorities said.

The violent attempted robbery took place shortly after 1 p.m. at the Golden Food Market at 2701 Jefferson Davis Highway, the same store where another man was shot last month -- and only three blocks from the scene of another robbery in June that left a shopkeeper dead.

Owners of as many as a dozen Jefferson Davis-area businesses flocked to the scene of the shooting, and many were rattled by such a brazen daylight attack, said Councilwoman Reva Trammell, whose 8th District includes the Jefferson Davis corridor.

Trammell, who arrived outside the store shortly after yesterday's shootings, described a frenzied scene. One man told Trammell that the man who had shot the robber was a guardian angel.

"Whoever did it probably saved their lives in there," Trammell said of the shooter.