Man Shoots Would-Be Robber in Pleasant Grove
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By Rod Carter
Morning/Midday Anchor
Published: October 14, 2008
A pair of would-be robbers startled a man checking on his parents home, but police said what they didn’t know, is they weren’t the only ones with a gun.
Pleasant Grove police say that man, shot one of the two men and the other took off.
According to the Pleasant Grove Police Chief William Waites said a man went to check on his parents home on Newberry Drive when two men pulled in the driveway behind him pulled a gun and attempted to rob him.
The man was also carrying a gun and shot and killed one of the men.
The other person ran.
Pleasant Grove police along with Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies have been searching for the second person using a road block and helicopters.
So far, he has not been found.
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Posted by ( mskittykat ) on October 20, 2008 at 7:22 am
too bad he didnt get both. then we wouldnt have to pay for his legal bills, prison time (food, shelter, cable tv, weight room…ect). dont know about yall but i dont think we’d have the econ. crises we have if we had a few less prisons or aliens taking our tax dollars as wellfare or prison cost
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