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My Fox Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio 10/27/08

Thursday, October 30, 2008

A thief armed with a knife entered the Cleveland Aviary pet shop, in Ohio, with hopes of emptying the store’s cash register. Once inside, the criminal threatened the clerk on duty with his knife pointed at the clerk’s throat. The 86-year-old owner of the shop was in the back of the store, and upon hearing the commotion, grabbed his gun. The owner came out of the back room and asked the thief to leave. When the thief refused, the owner fired, striking the criminal in the chest. The criminal died soon after on the front steps of the pet shop. The shop owner’s daughter later said the shop had been the target of attempted robberies before, which spurred her father into arming himself. “It’s sad, but he had to do what he had to do,” she added.

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