Clerk Shoots Would-Be Robber Fights Back After Being Tasered

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

Memphis, Tn - No charges have been filed yet in a deadly Wednesday morning shooting in Northeast Memphis. Witnesses said a store clerk had to protect himself from a would-be robber, who was armed with a taser. Tonight, the man police say was trying to rob the store is dead.

Before crime scene tape and squad cars covered Lana's parking lot Wednesday morning, a strange looking man caught Gary Belcher's attention. "He had the most coldest look on his face," Belcher said.

Belcher said he was picking-up trash when a man passed him and walked inside Lana's Market on Macon Road. Then, he said, he heard two gun shots. He ran into the store where he saw his friend, the store clerk, standing behind the counter.

"He had a gun in his hand and he was saying, 'help me Gary, help me.' I couldn't see the guy. At about that time, I a hand come up behind the counter, he was behind the counter and trying to grab for the gun," Belcher recalled.

Belcher said the would-be robber used a taser on the clerk before he was shot, "He tasered all over his head and his back now"


http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/090209_Clerk_Shoots_Would_Be_Robber

[Treo]

1. Don't bring a taser to a gun fight NT

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

2. True.

[Euromutt]

3. "The most coldest"?

Is that your most goodest English?

More seriously, the story does illustrate the limitations of a taser as a method of incapacitating an opponent. Dangerous and unreliable.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

4. Kick.

[Hoopla Phil]

5. Another innocent saved through the use of a firearm.