I love a happy ending, as do most Americans. So when a masked evil-doer played the “hatchet wielding” card to intimidate the clerk into giving up the money, he wasn’t counting on a concealed carry licensee playing his own trump card in the form of ballistic therapy.
Apparently Mr. Masked hatchet-wielder never saw the original Indiana Jones movie, right?
(Washington Post) – A masked man burst into a 7-Eleven near Seattle early Sunday morning, swinging a hatchet and slicing the store clerk.
Before the masked man could seriously hurt anyone, though, a customer who was drinking his morning coffee pulled out a concealed weapon and fatally shot the attacker.
Authorities did not name the attacker or the customer, but they did hail the concealed weapon owner as a hero.
“This could have been disastrous,” King County Sheriff Sgt. Cindi West told KIRO7. “Had this guy not shot, who knows what would have happened? We might have a dead clerk right now, and instead we have a dead bad guy.”
The clerk, Kuldeep Singh, suffered minor cuts to his stomach. He, too, thanked the customer for saving his life.
“He [was] killing me,” Singh, 58, said of the hatchet-wielding attacker. Singh added that the customer was a “nice guy.”
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