Just in Time.

WKRN.com reported that David Espino, a part owner of a Madison, Tennessee, discount tobacco store, "bought himself a gun. Monday he bought a holster. Tuesday night, he used them both when police said 19-year-old Joshua Whitworth and two others tried to rob him."

Espino purchased a pistol to protect himself at work after two clerks in a store down the road were cold-bloodedly murdered during a robbery the previous month. The killing really put him on his guard because he had met both men, and both seemed very nice. On January 16, masked robbers burst into Espino's store, put a gun to Espino's partner's head, and threatened to kill both his partner and the store customers if Espino didn't bring them money immediately.

When the robbers finished issuing their demands, Espino heard a loud noise that sounded like a shot, and so he opened fire. The robbers fired back. Police later counted 19 shell casing inside and outside the store. Espino hit Whitworth in the hand, and the robbers fled.

Espino was unscathed, but in the parking lot, according to Tennessean.com, Whitworth opened fire on a man sitting in a car, apparently because the man had witnessed the crime. The man in the car was struck once, nonfatally. Whitworth was captured by police about "two blocks away from the market with a bloody glove that had a bullet hole in it." He admitted to taking part in the robbery, but claims he was only a "lookout."

Police captain David Imhof spoke about Espino's use of a gun to News Channel 5 WTVF: "People are allowed to have firearms in their place of business and they are allowed to protect themselves." A customer, Alice Will, also commented to Channel 5, "I'm just glad somebody fought back. I think if there's more of that I think maybe it will deter some of the people doing it."

Whitworth was arrested for attempted criminal homicide and attempted aggravated robbery. He has a previous arrest record.