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Jewelry Store Store Owner Shoots Alleged Robber
POSTED: 8:08 a.m. CDT June 18, 2003
UPDATED: 9:34 a.m. CDT June 18, 2003
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A jewelry store owner is recovering in a hospital after he was wounded during a shootout with a man who tried to rob his business.
Larry Rowell's R&R Jewelers in northwest Oklahoma City was being robbed about 5 p.m. Tuesday when he pulled out a pistol and opened fire on the robber, police said.
Police didn't release the name of the robber, who shot Rowell once in the chest. Rowell was taken to Integris Baptist Medical Center where he was in good condition late Tuesday.
The shop, located in a row of antique stores, has been robbed at gunpoint before, said police Sgt. Isaac Goodman.
Marylyn Rowell, Rowell's wife, said she hadn't seen the robber on Tuesday before.
"We're a jewelry store and it attracts people who want to make a fast dollar," she said.
Goodman said Larry Rowell gave the robber, described as a heavyset white male, an undisclosed amount of cash.
When the robber looked into a display case and demanded diamonds he saw there, Larry Rowell pulled his own gun and opened fire, police said.
The robber fired once as he collapsed, police said. The robber died at the scene.
An employee at a hotel across the street from the shooting said the robber matched the description of someone who had been staying there.
The man and a woman who was with him were asked to leave their motel room because it was being renovated, said Shaun Sidwell, a maintenance worker at the Guest House Inn.
"He was acting bizarre," Sidwell said.
A motel resident said the couple arrived in Oklahoma City on a bus from Texas and they had been trying to leave Tuesday for Colorado.
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/2277460/detail.html
POSTED: 8:08 a.m. CDT June 18, 2003
UPDATED: 9:34 a.m. CDT June 18, 2003
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A jewelry store owner is recovering in a hospital after he was wounded during a shootout with a man who tried to rob his business.
Larry Rowell's R&R Jewelers in northwest Oklahoma City was being robbed about 5 p.m. Tuesday when he pulled out a pistol and opened fire on the robber, police said.
Police didn't release the name of the robber, who shot Rowell once in the chest. Rowell was taken to Integris Baptist Medical Center where he was in good condition late Tuesday.
The shop, located in a row of antique stores, has been robbed at gunpoint before, said police Sgt. Isaac Goodman.
Marylyn Rowell, Rowell's wife, said she hadn't seen the robber on Tuesday before.
"We're a jewelry store and it attracts people who want to make a fast dollar," she said.
Goodman said Larry Rowell gave the robber, described as a heavyset white male, an undisclosed amount of cash.
When the robber looked into a display case and demanded diamonds he saw there, Larry Rowell pulled his own gun and opened fire, police said.
The robber fired once as he collapsed, police said. The robber died at the scene.
An employee at a hotel across the street from the shooting said the robber matched the description of someone who had been staying there.
The man and a woman who was with him were asked to leave their motel room because it was being renovated, said Shaun Sidwell, a maintenance worker at the Guest House Inn.
"He was acting bizarre," Sidwell said.
A motel resident said the couple arrived in Oklahoma City on a bus from Texas and they had been trying to leave Tuesday for Colorado.
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/2277460/detail.html
