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An 80-year-old California liquor store owner caught video of him firing at a robbery plotter with a shotgun, saying, “I did a lot of hunting when I was little.”
Early Sunday morning at Norco Market & Liquor in Norco, just east of Los Angeles, an armed suspect stopped work shouting “He shot my arm off!”
“I have always protected my employees, my customers and myself. Luckily this time I was here alone so I only had to worry about it. That was it,” the store owner, CBS LA as Craig Cope, told the station.
“I used to hunt a lot when I was a kid,” he added. “I had food on the table, so I still remember the old days.”
An elderly California store owner opened fire on an armed robbery suspect, yelling, “He shot my arm off!”
Cope also told CBS LA, “More people should vote, they should vote the right way, and politicians should… I didn’t know
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“And when they’re putting people out…and we have bad people, let’s face it. Bad people, bad people we don’t need. It happens,” he said. said again. “Everybody works hard. They have bills to pay. These guys are coming up and trying to take it from you. Not here.”
The 23-year-old gunman, seen on surveillance footage brandishing a rifle, was not publicly identified but was later found at a local hospital with “a gunshot wound consistent with a shotgun explosion,” according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. I was tracked down as “suffering from
He is still in a serious but stable condition and will remain in prison after his release.
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Three other men, police say were in the getaway car during the attempted robbery, are in custody and face robbery and conspiracy charges.
Meanwhile, media reports said Coop returned to work on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack after the shooting.