Every weekend it’s the same story in Chicago: Numerous people killed and/or wounded from gun/gang/criminal violence. Even with strict gun laws, nothing ever changes.
Until somebody fought back. A couple of thugs were shot to death when they tried to rob a liquor store in the Gresham neighborhood. The Chicago Tribune reports that the criminals tried to rob Z&S Food & Liquor and were shot to death by a store employee.
The two thugs walked into the store and one of them hopped over the counter. One of the criminals hit the clerk standing behind the counter, while the other remained in front of the counter.
Here’s the good part: A relative of the store owner heard a commotion upstairs and saw the robbery suspects from a stairwell, authorities said. He pulled out a gun and opened fire on the two, killing them both. At least one of them was armed with a gun.
Investigators were trying to determine if the two would-be robbers had robbed two other stores in the area not long before trying to rob the liquor store.
A witness, Bruce Jones, said he was sitting in a van across the street while his nephews bought drinks inside the store. He said he heard shots and ran across the street into the store, where he saw both robbers laying on the floor “bleeding out.” “Greed and being thirsty, that’s what gets you killed,” Jones said. “You just can’t go taking people’s stuff.”
The store was the site of a previous robbery in which a robber was shot to death in a struggle for a gun and a clerk wounded by a second robber in August of 2011.
A group of bystanders stood talking loudly outside the store, which had a sign banning guns from the premises. “They don’t play and I don’t blame them,” a woman said of the storekeepers. “This (has) happened to them before.”
DCG
*Dead Right There