(DE) Clerk uses gun to foil KNIFE WEILDING robber 04-15-04

PROOF ONCE AGAIN THAT GUN COTROL DOES NOT STOP CRIME! But armed citizens DO!

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Article Last Updated: Thursday, April 15, 2004 – 11:58:58 AM EST

Clerk’s gun trumps knife in robbery try

WILMINGTON A knife-wielding robber fled empty handed but unharmed after
his victim pulled a gun on him Sunday night, according to police.

The unidentified man went into Forest Service Center at 316 Lowell St.
about 8:15 p.m. asking for change to use in a vending machine, Police
Chief Bernard P. Nally said.

The clerk left the office to tend to a customer and when he returned the
man asked for more change.

“After the attendant made change the second time the suspect produced a
knife and pointed it at the attendant and said, ‘Don’t do anything
stupid and give me all the money,’” Nally said.
“About this time the attendant produced a handgun which he is lawfully
licensed to do and ordered the suspect to leave the store, which he
did.”

The robber was described as a white man about 5-feet 6-inches tall in
his early 20s with a thin build, and clear complexion, wearing a
mustard-colored sweatshirt and dark sweatpants.