Maybe he should've asked.In mid-May, a criminal, apparently not understanding how food banks operate, tried to rob one. A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Early history article said that about 10 p.m. the food bank supervisor, William Zapf, discovered a man, later identified as Kenneth Mathews, in the freezer area of the food bank. Mathews was carrying the screwdriver screwdriver, n See instrument, screwdriver. that he had used to break into the food bank and, brandishing it like a weapon, he charged Zapf. When the screwdriver-wielding thief had pushed Zapf "nearly to the ground," Zapf pulled his registered handgun and shot Mathews in the calf, ending the incident. When Mathews was later interviewed by the police, he told them that he had been shot in a drive-by shooting drive-by shooting Public health A phenomenon in which one or more persons–commonly members of street gangs, open fire à la Al Capone from moving vehicles, often in retaliation for an alleged wrong-doing by a rival gang . Mathews was charged with burglary, robbery, and fictitious Based upon a fabrication or pretense. A fictitious name is an assumed name that differs from an individual's actual name. A fictitious action is a lawsuit brought not for the adjudication of an actual controversy between the parties but merely for the purpose of reports to law enforcement. Police have tentatively ruled the shooting self-defense. |
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