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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Harlem Store Owner Shoots 4 Robbers, Killing 2
2009-08-14
Hat tip Instapundit. As he says, crime control, not gun control ...
They strode into the restaurant supply store in Harlem shortly after 3 p.m. on Thursday, four young men intent on robbery, one with a Glock 9-millimeter pistol, the police said. The place may have looked like an easy mark, a high-cash business with an owner in his 70s, known as a gentle, soft-spoken man.

But Charles Augusto Jr., the 72-year-old proprietor of the Kaplan Brothers Blue Flame Corporation, at 523 West 125th Street, near Amsterdam Avenue, had been robbed several times before, despite the fact that his shop is around the corner from the 26th Precinct station house on West 126th Street.

There were no customers in the store, only Mr. Augusto and two employees, a man and a woman. The police said the invaders announced a holdup, approached the two employees and tried to place plastic handcuffs on them. The male employee, a 35-year-old known in the community as J. B., struggled with the gunman, who then hit him on the head with the pistol.
Posted by:Steve White

#9  needs bigger buckshot. now there will be endless litigation and race hustling instead of 4 funerals.
Posted by: abu do you love    2009-08-14 23:05  

#8  Another wounded man left a blood trail that the police followed to 125th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

And I thought tracking was a lost art.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-08-14 16:23  

#7  Some commenter said "3 shots, 4 hits - that's what I call gun control".

The place was only a few hundred yards from the nearest police station.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2009-08-14 15:25  

#6  Don't you just love a happy ending?

"How the hell are you going to rob someone in broad daylight?" said Sarah Martin, president of the General Grant Residents Association. Do it at night when nobody's watching dammit!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-08-14 13:43  

#5  "Some" of the community was against the robbers, but another part of the community is composed of robbers & other would-be thugs. I would not want to be in the proprietor's position or location now. But at least having a shotgun without a permit in NYC is not a capital offense, yet.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2009-08-14 12:49  

#4  Woodrow Call: For all you know it invites people to rob us.

Gus McCrae: Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2009-08-14 11:15  

#3  Nice shooting.
Posted by: Mike   2009-08-14 11:02  

#2  Nice shooting. It is good to see the community being against the robbers too.
Posted by: DarthVader   2009-08-14 11:01  

#1  Two bad guys dead, two wounded. Not bad for a man in his 70's.
Posted by: WolfDog   2009-08-14 10:47  

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