Saving what you sweat for."You have to work too hard out here for somebody to come in off the street and try to take what a man's got," said Tony Draughon, who runs a small store in Fayetteville, North Carolina Fayetteville is a city located in Cumberland County, North Carolina. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 121,015. It is the county seat of Cumberland County GR6, and is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a U.S. , to WRAL WRAL may mean either of two broadcast stations in Raleigh, North Carolina:
When two robbers wearing red bandanas entered Draughon's store at about two p.m. on December December: see month. 23, one of them pointed a pistol at Draughon's head. Draughon tried prevent the robber with the gun from shooting him by telling him that he could have the money in the cash drawer--and then he played the robber for a sucker sucker, common name for members of the family Catostomidae, freshwater fish related to the minnow and catfish families and like them possessing an intricate set of bones forming a highly sensitive hearing apparatus. Suckers range in size from 6 in. . He dropped the cash from the register on the floor, as if by accident, and then reached for a pistol behind the counter and opened fire. Draughon hit the gun-toting robber in the hip, and both young robbers fled. They apparently fled through a nearby woods to a waiting getaway car getaway car n the thieves' getaway car → el coche en que huyeron los ladrones getaway car n → voiture prévue pour prendre la fuite on the other side. When the threesome involved went to a local medical center to get aid for the wounded robber--later identified as 17-year-old Mark Tarver--they were arrested. Also in custody were 18year-olds Aaron Carmichael and Lamyer Campbell. |
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