(MS) Armed robbers meet enraged clerk 03-01-03

April 1, 2003
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Armed men held up nearby store 15 minutes earlier By Sylvain Metz
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A Jackson convenience store clerk armed with a shotgun opened fire on a
pair of robbers Monday morning, police said.

The same men held up another store just minutes earlier, police said.

The clerk at the Chevron station on Cooper Road blasted the robbers’
getaway car with a 12-gauge shotgun as they tried to make off with the
cash register and a 12-pack of beer, police said.

They dropped the beer when the clerk fired, authorities said.

The clerk would not give his name and would not comment.

About 15 minutes earlier, at 9 a.m., the same two men walked into the
Spur service station on U.S. 18 off Robinson Road, displayed handguns
and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash, said Jackson Police
Department spokesman Robert Graham said. A third man was waiting in the
car, he said.

The robbers next turned up at Dixie Gas at 1705 Raymond and Robinson
roads about 9:59 a.m., Graham said.

Kathleen Besok, a cashier, said she was in the back when she heard the
door buzzer. When she reached the front of the store, Besok said, she
saw two young men, one entering behind the other.

The man in front had a bandanna hiked up to his nose so she couldn’t see
his face, she said.
About that time, a customer drove up and the pair left, the first robber
dropping the bandanna from around his face.

Besok said she saw a maroon or burgundy Honda Accord take off with three
men inside.
Besok, who has worked for Dixie Gas about a year, said robberies don’t
scare her, but they make her “mad and irritated.” “They need to go out
and get a job.”

Graham said Monday night that police were still searching for the
robbers.