11-13-2007, 07:05 AM
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I'll ask when I'm ready....
Location: Firmly in the middle....
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Just thought I'd add this to the discussion.....
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crim...took_sl-1.html
Moral of the story? You'd better be proficient with your firearm before you attack someone holding ANY weapon....
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The armed robber who burst into a Queens bodega with his gun blazing wound up begging for his life after the deli owner hacked him with a machete.
"He whipped out his gun. I whipped out my machete, and we went to war," said Joan Marte, 46, the owner of Erick Grocery in Woodhaven. "When I hit him with the machete, he said, 'Please don't kill me.'"
When it was over, the suspect, Omar Rodriguez, 27, of Brooklyn, was missing a finger and part of an ear. Instead of demanding cash, the robber was asking the grocer to call 911, Marte said.
An ambulance took Rodriguez to Jamaica Hospital. Now he's facing attempted murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon charges. Rodriguez fired two shots from a semiautomatic pistol, which was recovered, cops said.
Marte, who immigrated from the Dominican Republic about 23 years ago and saved to buy the deli last year, was not injured.
Police do not believe Marte, a married father of four, will be charged with a crime.
Although neighbors outside the store yesterday hailed him as a hero, Marte said he was only trying to protect himself and his livelihood.
"It isn't worth it to kill a robber," he said. "I'm not an assassin, or a killer."
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Last edited by Push-Pull; 11-13-2007 at 07:13 AM..
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