Store Clerk Shoots Would-Be Robber
Teenager Also Tried To Carjack Woman
Originally Reported at http://www.wcco.com

MINNEAPOLIS, Updated 7:28 a.m., June 1, 2000 -- A clerk shot a 17-year-old boy who tried to rob a Minneapolis jewelry store Wednesday.

The teen entered American Quality Jewelers, 2401 Central Ave, N.E., at about 6 p.m., pointed a semi-automatic gun at the clerk and handed him a note, WCCO-TV reports.

After a second clerk set off a silent alarm, the employees tried to leave, but were stopped by the gunman. The teen then fired into a display case, but it did not shatter.

As the robber tried to flee the business, an employee shot him in the stomach.

However, the teen was not done shooting.

As he fled, the teen tried to carjack the vehicle a woman was driving. When she refused to stop, the youth fired a shot at her, just missing her head. "The bullet came so close to her head that she went to the doctor with ear pain," WCCO-TV reports.

The teen was arrested a short time later.

He was listed in satisfactory condition at the Hennepin County Medical Center Thursday.

The clerk was not arrested.

NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed, without profit, for research or educational purposes to those who have expressed a prior interest.  We do our best, as well, to give credit to the original news source who published these Guns Save Lives stories out of respect and appreciation for their willingness to spread the word that Guns Save Lives.  (As most web sites do not archive these stories, and as the media is doing a relatively poor job at getting these stories widely known, and as gun owners need to hear these stories, we print them for free, without profit.)