The Armed Citizen® Dec. 27, 2024

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posted on December 27, 2024
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A gas station attendant in Seattle, Wash., was forced to defend himself against a man's threatening actions in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station where he worked, according to statements made by the Seattle Police Dept.

Reports indicate the employee was inside his car in the gas station's parking lot, taking a break, when he observed a man and a woman doing drugs in the same lot. The employee told the couple to leave. The man grabbed a rock and threw it toward the employee, shattering the window of his vehicle. The man then allegedly told the clerk, "I will shoot you, too."

The 35-year-old suspect then made a motion toward his waistband and lunged at the 69-year-old station attendant. The employee had grabbed his firearm at the stranger's threatening approach, and when the suspect moved toward him, he fired once, striking the assailant once in the abdomen. The attacker fled, and the clerk called 911 to report the shooting. Police found the wounded attacker collapsed in the drive-through of a nearby business. He was taken to a local medical center, where he underwent surgery. (MyNorthwest; Seattle, Wash.; 10/22/24)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives – May 1978

World War I veteran Charles Griffen, 80, entered his Jacksonville, Fla., home and spotted three intruders running to the rear of the house. They had knocked down his wife and choked her. While grabbing his shotgun, which he kept near the door, Griffen noticed that his M1 was missing. In the back of his house, he trapped one of the men. Then Griffen heard a noise and turned to see his own M1 in the hands of a robber. “I shot him,” Griffen said. “I only got him because he used the sights and I shot from the hip.” Two of the assailants fled while the wounded one remained there for the police. (The Journal, Jacksonville, Fla.)

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