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THE ARMED CITIZEN   May 97

 Pine Bluff, Arkansas, pizzeria assistant manager Ailene Jones was
 enjoying a meal when two young men entered the restaurant where she
 worked and attempted to force another employee to open the cash
 register. When their efforts failed, one of the bandits approached
 Jones, who was armed.The suspect started shooting at Jones, who shot
 back. The criminals fled the building. While police were interviewing
 Jones, who had been struck in the foot, in the hospital, a young man
 fitting one of the suspects' descriptions showed up with a gunshot
 wound to the chest. He was promptly arrested. Police were still
 searching for his accomplice. 
(The Democrat Gazette, Pine Bluff, AR, 12/11/96)

 It was five against one at a Kansas City, Kansas, snack shop, but the
 armed citizen emerged unscathed. One of the would-be thieves was not
 so lucky. It all happened when five men, some of them armed, entered
 Columbus Park Sundries and attempted to take money from the cash
 register.`rhe clerk grabbed his own gun and shot at the suspects, who
 promptly vacated the premises. A short while later, a man who police
 believe to be one of the suspects appeared at a nearby hospital with
 a gunshot wound to his back. It was the second time in four years a
 Columbus Park employee had been forced to shoot a bandit. 
(The Star, Kansas City, KS, 10/25/96)

 The burglar ransacked 81-year-old Alberta Nicles' Muskegon, Michigan,
 home before waking her up and ordering her around the house to search
 for money. Ending up back in her bedroom, the intruder--a suspected
 crack addict with a long history of criminal activity--removed the
 widow's pajama bottoms and was preparing to rape her when she
 informed him that she knew where there was some money. Her assailant
 let her up and followed her to a closet where the woman instead
 retrieved her late husband's .38. She turned and shot her tormentor
 to death. Nicles then went to a neighbor's home to call police
 because herown lines had been severed by the intruder prior to his
 breaking in.7his was not just a random breaking and entering.... He
 was planning on taking advantage of the vulnerability of an elderly
 person.... She was clearly acting in self-defensei Muskegon County
 Prosecutor Tony Tague said. 
(The Chronicle, Muskegon, MI, 1/2/97)

 Tampa, Florida, pizza delivery driver Clifford S. Jordan reached into
 his glove box when two thugs ambushed him in an attempt to rob him.
 Out came his .380, and Jordan fired at both assailants, killing one
 and wounding the other. Police declined to file charges against the
 driver, but his employer, Domino's Pizza, suspended him with pay
 while they waited to review the police report. Jordan's actions were
 contrary to company policy. Domino's trains their employees to comply
 with a robber's demands. 
(The News Herald, Panama City, FL, 12/21/96)

 A Los Angeles, California, Domino's Pizza delivery driver was walking
 back to his Isuzu Trooper after delivering three pizzas to a home in
 a crime-ridden neighborhood when he was approached by a
 knife-wielding robber. Asked for cash, the driver replied he didn't
 have any and was subsequently stabbed in the chest. A struggle ensued
 and the driver--a concealed-carry permit holder--drew a pistol from
 his waistband and fatally shot his attacker.'7he guy's pretty lucky
 he's in here talking to us:' said LAPD Det. Chuck Merritt. Domino's
 had no comment on the matter. (The Times, Los Angeles, CA, 1/27/97)

 Mary Jo Netherton, 61 , refused the midnight stranger's request to
 use the phone in her Knoxville, Tennessee, home. Suddenly, the
 26-year-old invader burst through her front door and began hitting
 and shoving the woman across the room. Pointing a gun at her head,
 the intruder demanded the receipts from a restaurant she operates.
 Helpless, Netherton feared she would be killed without her
 hearing-impaired boy-friend--asleep in the next room--ever coming to
 her rescue. She was wrong. From the darkness, James Roy Patton
 emerged, shoving a snubnose .38 into the assailant's chest and
 firing. Though the criminal had donned a bullet-proof vest, it fit
 too loosely, allowing the bullet to find its mark. The crook, who had
 an extensive violent criminal history, including fleeing police and
 weapons charges from just four months prior to Netherton's assault,
 died.'7hey were lucky. If they had not had a gun in the house, they'd
 have been dead," Knoxville Police Investigator Mike Hyde said. 
(The News-Sentinel,Knoxville, TN, 2/12/97)

 San Antonio, Texas, restauranteur Alfonso Orestes Benitez was
 entering his home with his wife and daughter when two men dashed from
 the street and confronted the family. One of the pair, with a gun in
 hand, attempted to force his way into the home. Benitez, a
 concealed-carry permit holder, pulled a .25 cal. semi-automatic
 pistol from his pocket and shot the gun-wielding robber. Both men
 fled, but one was arrested that evening when he appeared at a
 hospital for treatment of his wound. '7hank God my husband was
 armed:' Benitez's wife, Diana, said after the incident. 
(The Express-News, San Antonio, TX, 1/19/97)

 "He didn't stay long. He went running because I had something to make
 him run:' said 77-year-old Anna Lee England after forcing a bandit
 from her Calloway, Kentucky, country store. The elderly woman was in
 the store her late husband built in 1967 when a masked man believed
 to be in his 20s entered and demanded everything in the cash
 register. Instead, England pulled out a .38 and ordered the thug to
 leave. He did so quickly. A suspect was soon detained and questioned
 in the case. "I just figured I had worked for what I had, and I was
 going to protect it. I was just using common sense," England said.
 (The Daily News, Middleboro, KY, 10/15/96)T