74 yr old man plus walker plus shotgun = dead scumbag!

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 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

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-01-11 06:58pm

He they fought in WWII or Korea=Don't fuck with them.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-01-11 07:17pm

Shotguns=Hard to miss

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-01-11 07:18pm

Excellent. Private gun ownership once again sends some criminals to hell for no friendly losses.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-01-11 07:24pm

My 73 year old dad loves this one!

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2003-01-11 08:21pm

About time people started defending themselves and not aiding the criminals just because the media "told them to". Keep it up, Shep!

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-01-11 09:27pm

More details at another forum here in this thread. That's 2 perps who won't be doing any more robberies, ever.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-01-11 09:33pm

I love a happy ending!

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-01-11 09:43pm

Fuckin A!

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-01-11 10:19pm

Trying to reach attorney's? There ain't none that will touch that with a ten foot poll. My Georgian Neighbors know what the fuck it's about.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-11 10:34pm

Good stuff. When it's a blatant case of someone being a criminal, they don't get no stinkin' rights in my book. That's why I'm glad all the lawyers in my family either work contracts or prosecution; we don't defend robbers and murderers. I think I'd like this guy, seems to be very practical about life.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-01-11 10:45pm

Adams' wife of 44 years, Mary, said that, during one of the robberies, a man held her husband at gunpoint and demanded his money and his wedding ring.

"The man kept saying 'hurry up, old man, hurry up,'" she said. "He told the man, 'if you don't stop calling me old, I'm going to kill you."

When the alleged robber left the store, Adams grabbed a pistol, followed him out and fired a shot in the air.

The man dropped the bag and ran. Adams reached down and pulled out the ring.

Sounds like it should be in a movie.

Necro99 · Post by **Necro99** » 2003-01-11 10:48pm

Heh.
Don't Fuck with ex-GI's.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2003-01-12 05:31am

According to Georgia law, a person is justified in threatening to use force -- or using it -- to defend himself or another person from a third person's "imminent use of unlawful force."

A person also is justified in using force to stop another from committing a forceable felony, such as a rape or armed robbery.

What's sad is that those fucking teenage punks couldn't outrun an 74 year old using a walker. Or didn't have enough sense to run when they saw him carrying a shotgun. Fucking idiots.

Good job, old-timer!