`STUNNING' PERSUADES SUSPECT TO GIVE UP.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Deputies used a ``stunbag'' shotgun shotgun: see small arms. shotgun Smoothbore shoulder firearm designed to fire a number of pellets, or shot, that cover a large target area after they leave the muzzle. It is used mainly against small game such as birds. to subdue sub·due tr.v. sub·dued, sub·du·ing, sub·dues 1. To conquer and subjugate; vanquish. See Synonyms at defeat. 2. To quiet or bring under control by physical force or persuasion; make tractable. 3. a robbery suspect Noun 1. robbery suspect - someone suspected of committing robbery suspect - someone who is under suspicion who was armed with a knife and yelling yell v. yelled, yell·ing, yells v.intr. To cry out loudly, as in pain, fright, surprise, or enthusiasm. v.tr. To utter or express with a loud cry. See Synonyms at shout. n. at deputies to shoot him, authorities said Monday. The incident occurred at 7:40 p.m. Friday after a robbery at the Readmore bookstore, 2604 E. Palmdale Blvd. Witnesses told deputies that while a teen-age girl distracted a store clerk, a man later identified as Lawrence Topping, 18, of Palmdale, came around the counter, shoved the clerk aside and took an undisclosed amount of cash. Shortly after the robbery, deputies found Topping standing on top of an 8-foot-high, chain-link fence along a field west of the store. Topping was holding a knife and yelling at the deputies to shoot him, deputies said. After trying for several minutes to get Topping to surrender, a deputy fired one round from a stunbag gun, striking Topping in the chest. Topping dropped the knife and came down off the fence. He was arrested without further incident, deputies said. Resembling a standard shotgun, the stunbag shotgun fires a 2-by-2-inch cloth bag filled with pellets, deputies said. Deputies later went to a home in the 38600 block of Angele Trumpet trumpet, brass wind musical instrument of part cylindrical, part conical bore, in the shape of a flattened loop and having three piston valves to regulate the pitch. Court in Palmdale and arrested Topping's 17-year-old girlfriend. Topping is being held at the Lancaster sheriff's station in lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. $50,000 bail. The girl was taken to Sylmar Juvenile Hall. |
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