: From The Tampa Tribune
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Store Owner Justified In Shooting Burglar Published: Dec 23, 2001

BARTOW – A Lakeland liquor store owner was justified when he shot and
killed a burglar earlier this month, the state attorney’s office has
ruled.

Store owner John Samanns, 37, of Mulberry shot Larry D. Russell, 41, of
Polk County twice after Russell used a metal pry bar to break the lower
deadbolt on an exterior metal gate, the state attorney’s report said.
Samanns was sleeping in his store, John’s Drive-Thru on South Combee
Road, because of recent burglaries when a sensor alarm went off about 2
a.m. Dec. 4.

Samanns opened an interior sliding glass door and saw Russell prying on
the upper part of the exterior gate, the report said. The metal gate was
ajar when the two confronted each other, the report said, and Russell
was holding the pry bar over his head.