Draws from ankle holster, spins around and shoots BG sitting in seat behind him. Good show.....
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...72F4E7B95C0C26C8862570B1000D9E91?OpenDocument
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...72F4E7B95C0C26C8862570B1000D9E91?OpenDocument
An off-duty officer foils robbery
By Heather Ratcliffe
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/06/2005
Maybe it was John Graves' alligator shoes, gold rings or the rims on his Cadillac DeVille that caught the robber's eye.
But it was what the robber couldn't see that nearly got him killed - a .38 caliber pistol strapped to Graves' ankle and a St. Louis County police badge in his wallet.
The two met in the parking lot of a Popeye's restaurant in St. Louis Friday evening. The robber got nothing from Graves, except maybe a bullet to his body. Police were still looking for the robber, who escaped after the shooting.
Graves, 48, stopped at the restaurant near Grand Avenue and Natural Bridge Road about 9 p.m. after visiting a wake to buy food for the grieving family. He was carrying a bucket of chicken back to his car when two teenagers emerged from a nearby alley.
One approached Graves, pulled a .38 caliber revolver from his clothes and ordered Graves into his vehicle. Graves sat behind the wheel. The gunman sat behind him in the back seat.
The off-duty policeman pulled his pistol from his ankle holster and spun around in his seat. He fired two rounds.
The suspect leaped from the open door as Graves fired several more shots. The officer heard the robber drop his gun before he took off through an alley.
St. Louis police recovered the robber's fully loaded handgun. They also lifted fingerprints from the officer's car where the gunman had opened a door.
The shooting left two holes in Graves' backseat just where the robber had been sitting. Authorities said the gunman might be wounded. Police were still searching for the two men, who escaped.
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