Saving his own life.After stopping to get gas and beef jerky Noun 1. beef jerky - strips of dried beef jerked meat, jerky, jerk - meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun after a softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' game, Brian Starr began driving away from a Fuel Mart gas station when he glanced in his rearview mirror and saw a strange man in the rear seat of his car, and the man was raising a gun. While the car was still moving, Starr grabbed for the gun. As the two struggled, the stranger managed to fire the gun, hitting Starr in the thigh thigh (thi) femur; the portion of the leg above the knee. thigh n. The part of the leg between the hip and the knee. Also called femur. , breaking his femur femur (fē`mər): see leg. in half. The stranger's advantage was short-lived. Before the car traveled much over a football field in distance, Starr had wrested the gun from the assailant, later identified as John Toubell, and shot him in the chest, neck, and head, killing him. KDKA.com reported that Toubell was wanted for at least one other robbery and that, in fact, he was at the gas station that night because he had agreed to meet a detective there and turn himself in for robbing a restaurant. In the restaurant robbery, Toubell robbed the proprietor proprietor n. the owner of anything, but particularly the owner of a business operated by that individual. PROPRIETOR. The owner. (q.v.) Pat Oberrath, beat her, tied her up, stole a gun, and threatened to kill her. Starr needed to have a metal rod inserted into his leg to help the break heal. |
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