http://www.gomemphis.com/newca/032901/29shoot.htm

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Would-be carjacker shot dead
Armed man opens fire when robber demands SUV keys

By Yolanda Jones
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By Alan Spearman

A carjacker was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of Southland Mall by a man he tried to rob, police said.
The would-be robber was identified by police as Kenneth J. Brigance, 21. He was shot several times and died underneath the vehicle he attempted to steal, police said.

“This is a carjacking gone bad,” said Maj. Jerry Lawson with the Memphis Police Department South precinct.
Actually, this sounds like a carjacking gone good!

Family members identified the man who shot the robber as Percell Perry, 22.

Police said he had a license to carry the weapon he used in the shooting.

Perry and his 18-year-old girlfriend, Sharnell Chester, were not injured in the attack.

Lawson said a man and a woman got out of their 1998 Mercury Mountaineer around 12:48 p.m. to go into the Whitehaven mall when a man grabbed the woman, put a gun to her head and demanded the keys to the sport utility vehicle.

“The man with her got out of the vehicle and pushed her out of the way and fired shots at the robber,” Lawson said.

The suspect tried to escape the gunfire by diving under the SUV, but was shot several times and died under the vehicle with his revolver a few feet away on the pavement.

Police said the incident is under investigation and did not release further details. Homicide detectives plan to meet with state prosecutors today to determine whether the shooting was a justifiable homicide.
From the account offered here, they damn well better consider it justifiable!

“I was at work when I received a call that my daughter was carjacked,” said Sharnell’s father, Lee Chester. “I rushed over here to see if she was OK.”

When he arrived, he found his daughter and Perry in the back of police cars, being questioned by officers.

Chester said his daughter called him earlier in the day and said she was going to cash her check and then head to the mall to do some shopping.

“I am just glad she is OK because this thing could have easily turned the other way, and she or her boyfriend could have been on the ground over there,” Chester said.

As police put crime scene cards on the dozen bullet casings on the ground and covered Brigance’s body with black plastic, mall customers gathered around the crime scene.

Dawn Hamilton, acting manager of the mall, said the shooting was an isolated incident.

“We have security patrolling the mall at all times,” Hamilton said.