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Monday, April 13, 2009
News Don't rob AA meetings in South Carolina
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM
This was just never going to be a good idea.
A robber who walked into the Columbia downtown Alcoholics Anonymous center, pulled out a gun and demanded money was killed in a burst of gunfire from an AA visitor’s gun, police said.“Gimme what you got,” witnesses quoted the robber as saying when he entered the AA building at 2015 College St. in Five Points about 10:48 p.m. Saturday. They said he brandished a .25-caliber handgun.
At that point, as one AA visitor dropped something on the floor — possibly his wallet — another AA visitor pulled out his own pistol and shot the robber “multiple times,” police said.
Read the rest of this Columbia State article, via The Charlotte Observer, here.
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