A jeweled response.The News and Observer of November 14 reported that Larry Dickerson, a retired police officer and owner of Walls Jewelers, needed to shoot at two men who attempted to rob his store. Raleigh police spokesman Lieutenant LIEUTENANT. This word has now a narrower meaning than it formerly had; its true meaning is a deputy, a substitute, from the French lieu, (place or post) and tenant (holder). Among civil officers we have lieutenant governors, who in certain cases perform the duties of governors; (vide, the Hil Miller said that according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dickerson, two men entered his store and began acting suspiciously. Operating on a hunch hunch n. 1. An intuitive feeling or a premonition: had a hunch that he would lose. 2. A hump. 3. A lump or chunk: "She . . . , Dickerson put a gun into his pocket. When one of the men wheeled around with a gun, Dickerson dove for the floor. The gun-wielding miscreant mis·cre·ant n. 1. An evildoer; a villain. 2. An infidel; a heretic. [Middle English miscreaunt, heretic, from Old French mescreant, present participle of fired three times, and Dickerson returned fire. No one was hit by the gunfire, and the two suspects fled. Regarding the incident, Dickerson, who hadn't fired a shot in 20 years of duty, said, "You have to have a gun. If I didn't have it, I'd be dead." The suspects were not apprehended. |
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