Contrast what happened to intended victim with a gun vs. victim without a gun – same assailant

> This incident shows what is DRASTICALLY wrong with employers policies
> prohibiting guns in parking lots. If this woman had been able to access her
> gun in her vehicle, she might have had a chance. In contrast, the man
> attacked in the RV park by the same assailant, shot the assailant and the
> intended victim had no injuries. It’s time to stop employers from setting
> up their employees to be defenseless victims unless they want to provide
> them with armed guards at all times at work, in the parking lots and to and
> from work. Mitch Vilos
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> Abducted Wal-Mart Clerk’s Truck Found
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> 29 minutes ago U.S. National – AP
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> TYLER, Texas – A young woman was abducted from a parking lot while leaving
> work at a Wal-Mart, an attack captured on videotape, and a suspect and her
> truck were found Friday hundreds of miles away in Arizona.
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> Megan Leann Holden, a 19-year-old college student from Henderson, was
> reported missing Thursday morning when she did not return home from her
> shift the night before. Surveillance video appeared to show her being shoved
> into her truck, which then drove away. She was still unaccounted-for Friday.
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> Authorities in Willcox, Ariz., were holding Johnny Lee Williams, 24, for
> investigation in the missing woman’s case, said Carol Capas, a spokeswoman
> for the Cochise County (Ariz.) Sheriff’s Department.
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> He was at a hospital Friday being treated for a gunshot wound, apparently
> inflicted in a robbery attempt, Capas said. He was to be questioned by Texas
> police and the FBI (news – web sites), who were en route to Willcox.
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> Capas said her department had no information on the missing woman.
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> Tyler police spokesman Don Martin said earlier that Holden, a clerk at the
> Wal-Mart store, had clocked out at 11:43 p.m. Wednesday.
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> A surveillance videotape “shows Megan getting into her truck and the (man)
> running up behind her and either hitting her or pushing her,” Martin said.
> “Then the vehicle drives off.”
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> He said Williams, of Tyler, was considered a suspect.
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> Capas said Williams is believed to have been shot during an attempted
> robbery at an RV park northeast of Willcox. A man at the RV park told
> authorities he had shot a man who had pulled a gun on him and demanded
> money.
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> Williams was being treated at Northern Cochise Community Hospital for a
> gunshot wound to the shoulder; the wound was not life-threatening, Capas
> said.
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> When the wounded man was found at the hospital, authorities determined that
> the pickup truck he had been driving was linked to the Texas kidnapping
> case.
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> The FBI has joined the investigation, Tyler police said.
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> Wal-Mart surveillance tape shows a man, about 20 to 25 years old, in a long,
> dark coat, apparently the abductor, loitering around the front entrance to
> the store “for a good period of time,” Martin said.
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> He was also seen on tape about 1 1/2 hours before the abduction, emerging
> from a bathroom and walking around inside the store.
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> James D. “Mitch” Vilos
> Attorney at Law
> P.O. Box 1148
> Centerville, Utah 84014
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> Compensation), and Firearms Law (representation of gun owners in criminal
> actions, and expungements).