74 yr old man plus walker plus shotgun = dead scumbag!
Posted: 2003-01-11 06:51pm
74-Year-Old Man Kills Would-Be Robber
Associated Press Writer
January 10, 2003, 5:27 PM EST
DECATUR, Ga. -- When 74-year-old J.C. Adams saw
three would-be robbers walk into his convenience store, he grabbed his shotgun with one hand and balanced himself on his walker with the other.
On a surveillance monitor, he saw two men and a woman hold up an employee at the cash register. That's when Adams pushed his walker to the front of the store and confronted the armed suspects, killing one man and wounding the other. An employee held the woman until police arrived.
"No need to let something like that live," said Adams, who had been wounded in a May 2000 robbery attempt in which he killed another intruder.
In his 26 years as owner of the Pac A Sac, a convenience store in a middle-class suburb just off Lawrenceville Highway, Adams has been robbed 12 times. He keeps the shotgun nearby now as he watches the store monitors. The walker he uses because of a recent knee surgery.
Police said Friday that Adams would not be charged in the shooting death Thursday of Cameron Lemont Glover, 17. Glover's 19-year-old brother, Leonard, and Tammy Crystal Jones, 17, were charged with armed robbery.
Until three years ago, Adams said he kept a .38 handgun in his store, but he switched to a shotgun after yet another robbery.
"I shot at the guy and missed," he said. "You can't do anything with a .38."
Adams' defense of the store has made him a legend in the neighborhood.
"Everybody knows J.C.," said resident Nancy Pope. "Obviously (robbers) don't know who they are messing with."
Family members of the Glovers and attorneys for Leonard Glover and Jones could not be located.
Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press
Associated Press Writer
January 10, 2003, 5:27 PM EST
DECATUR, Ga. -- When 74-year-old J.C. Adams saw
three would-be robbers walk into his convenience store, he grabbed his shotgun with one hand and balanced himself on his walker with the other.
On a surveillance monitor, he saw two men and a woman hold up an employee at the cash register. That's when Adams pushed his walker to the front of the store and confronted the armed suspects, killing one man and wounding the other. An employee held the woman until police arrived.
"No need to let something like that live," said Adams, who had been wounded in a May 2000 robbery attempt in which he killed another intruder.
In his 26 years as owner of the Pac A Sac, a convenience store in a middle-class suburb just off Lawrenceville Highway, Adams has been robbed 12 times. He keeps the shotgun nearby now as he watches the store monitors. The walker he uses because of a recent knee surgery.
Police said Friday that Adams would not be charged in the shooting death Thursday of Cameron Lemont Glover, 17. Glover's 19-year-old brother, Leonard, and Tammy Crystal Jones, 17, were charged with armed robbery.
Until three years ago, Adams said he kept a .38 handgun in his store, but he switched to a shotgun after yet another robbery.
"I shot at the guy and missed," he said. "You can't do anything with a .38."
Adams' defense of the store has made him a legend in the neighborhood.
"Everybody knows J.C.," said resident Nancy Pope. "Obviously (robbers) don't know who they are messing with."
Family members of the Glovers and attorneys for Leonard Glover and Jones could not be located.
Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press
