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Thursday,
March 14th, 2002
Hampton recruit shot and killed during robbery attempt

Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) – Hampton University football signee
Derrick Breedlove was shot and killed Wednesday after a failed robbery
attempt at a liquor store blocks from his high school.

Breedlove, a 6-2, 251-pound defensive tackle from Baltimore’s Dundalk
High School, entered Modern Discount Liquors Wednesday morning armed
with a pellet gun and was shot by a clerk after taking a bag of cash.

Police said they were questioning another
Dundalk student last night who might have been waiting outside the store
in a getaway car. Police found the vehicle in the parking lot at Dundalk
High and towed it away as part of the investigation.

“When I got the call, I thought it must be a mistake, it has to be a
mistake,” said Kim Stephanic, the school’s principal. “Derrick was
supposed to be in his first-period class and instead he was robbing a
liquor store. I can’t understand it.”

According to Baltimore County police, Breedlove walked into the store
shortly after 9 a.m., displayed the pellet gun and demanded money from a
clerk behind the counter. A second clerk, Richard Kosinski, 50, who
lives near the store, was in a back room and witnessed the robbery, she
said.

Kosinski retrieved a handgun, walked out a side door and re-entered
through the front door, Warehime said. He confronted Breedlove and shot
him twice in the upper body.

Breedlove, who was pronounced dead at the scene, did not fire any shots.

03/14 12:48:43 ET
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