Old guy deals with robbers - 3 shots, 2 dead and all 4 shot

[Big Frank]

All 4 had prior convictions for weapons and robbery, WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY DOING OUT OF JAIL !!!

Getting the sentence they deserved. 

[tt11758]

Getting the sentence they deserved. 

Or to quote Uncle Ted, "I don't want repeat offenders, I want DEAD offenders!!"

[Kid Shelleen]

That's the way things are supposed to go down. The good guys win!!!

Thank God that all of the innocent people were uninjured.

Way to handle that 12 gauge.

[TAB]

I say the guy was realy lucky, sounds like he either missed or had overpentration.  if that plett(s) had hit some one else, he would be paying for it .

[Timothy]

I say the guy was realy lucky, sounds like he either missed or had overpentration.  if that plett(s) had hit some one else, he would be paying for it .

When your over seventy, ANY penetration is better than nothing!     

TAB, you have an innate ability to see the blatantly obvious!  No one else got hurt, only the bad guys, save the taxpayers a ton of money.  Done deal, move on!

In NYC, the two that lived will be back on the streets in a few years, rob another old codger, get themselves killed and the circle of a gangbangers life is complete!

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[1911 Junkie]

That old guys actions really pisses me off. He let 2 survive. How dare he? Better send him a letter and tell him next time he better get it right. 

[sledgemeister]

That old guys actions really pisses me off. He let 2 survive. How dare he? Better send him a letter and tell him next time he better get it right. 

More range time needed LOL

I suppose in actual fact the guy was probably lucky to have ever used one before let alone train defensively to use one.
Maybe he been practising with his grand kids Call of Duty 4? LOL

[fullautovalmet76]

Several things come to mind:

For all of the gun store commandos who sneer when you mention using a shotgun for self defense, they stand sorely corrected.......

If this guy had taken a combat shotgun course at some point in his past, he might have gotten all four! 

I am writing a letter to the Op Ed page of the NYT reminding the citizens of NYC they don't have to live with these draconian gun laws and they can take control of their own personal safety. Well, we'll see if the NYT will even publish something so "radical" as that, but I'll give it a shot......

[tt11758]

I say the guy was realy lucky, sounds like he either missed or had overpentration.  if that plett(s) had hit some one else, he would be paying for it .

TAB's motto:  "Remember, wrapped around every silver lining is a dark cloud."

[ericire12]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32426383/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

NEW YORK - The sidewalk outside the Harlem store still was smeared with blood Friday, and the glass on the door still was blown out.

Above the entrance, someone had scribbled the words, "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."

Less than 24 hours after a deadly showdown at the shop worthy of a Clint Eastwood script, Charles "Gus" Augusto Jr. entered his store — oblivious of the inscription taken from Dante's "Inferno."

The 72-year-old wholesaler of commercial restaurant equipment had been up all night, questioned by police about how he'd drawn a shotgun and killed two of four armed robbery suspects who entered his Kaplan Brothers Blue Flame store Thursday afternoon.

Two of the young men died on the street. Two remained hospitalized in stable condition with gunshot wounds.

'Where's the money?'
When they walked in at about 3 p.m. and confronted Augusto with guns, "I didn't want to shoot them," he said, sitting bleary-eyed in his dusty, windowless warehouse, with a fly swatter hanging above his head.

He said the bandits drew their handguns, yelling, "Where's the money? Where's the money?"

They pistol-whipped a worker and waved a weapon at a cashier's face, he said.

"There is no money," Augusto said he told them. "Go home."

Stashed away nearby was the 12-gauge shotgun he bought decades ago and said he had never used since a test-fire. He reached for it when he sensed one of the men was about to shoot, and pulled the trigger once.

"I hoped after the first shot they would go away," he said.

When they didn't, continuing to menace his employees, he fired again, and again.

Police said one of the men collapsed and died outside the door, just feet from a Baptist church.

"He died in the hands of God," said a neighborhood resident, Vincent Gayle, pointing to the blood-spattered pavement by the church. "But what goes around comes around."

Trail of blood
Another fatally wounded suspect managed to cross the street, leaving a trail of blood before he collapsed. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.

More blood led police to the other two suspects, who were arrested and taken to the hospital. Charges against them were pending.

Police said Augusto didn't have a required permit for the weapon used in the headline-grabbing shooting the Daily News called a "Pump-Action Ending."

But he was a victim, police said, and no charges had been filed on Friday.

"I'd rather not have done it," Augusto said, "and I'm sad for those mothers who have no sons."