Two armed citizens stop robbers in separate incidents

Armed citizens in Cincinnati and Dayton were forced to use their firearms to defend their lives in two recent incidents.

WCPO (ABC Cincinnati) is reporting that a store clerk who had a concealed handgun license shot an armed robbery suspect on late on Friday, July 29.

From the article:

The suspect went into the Harrison Food Mart at about 11:03 p.m. and held the clerk at gunpoint, a news release from the department said.

He left after the clerk shot him, and officers found him next door.

The suspect was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center, according to the police department. He had no identification, and police said they cannot identify him.

The Cheviot Police Department is asking that anyone with information on the case call 513-825-2280.

Meanwhile, in Dayton, that city's CBS affiliatate, WHIO, is reporting that the intended victim of a robbery defended themselves when attacked at a gas station.

From the article:

Dayton police said the man shot and killed at the Shell gas station on Free Pike was involved in a “robbery gone wrong.”

Police were dispatched to the Shell gas station at 4046 Free Pike around 11:40 p.m. Saturday on a report of a shooting, according to Dayton police Sgt. Randy Beane.

Beane said the man was shot after attempting to rob another. The shooting victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

This author has never been sure what police mean by calling incidents like these "robberies gone wrong." The logical conclusion of such a statement is that a robbery that doesn't go wrong is one where the victim is the only one injured - even if only by suffering loss to their property.

In my view, these robberies went right. Only those seeking to cause harm to others were themselves injured. Only those seeking to take from others suffered loss - in the latter case the loss of his own life.

A complete list of known incidents involving Ohio CHL-holders defending themselves is available here.

Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Secretary, BFA PAC Vice Chairman, and an NRA-certified firearms instructor. He is the editor of BuckeyeFirearms.org, which received the Outdoor Writers of Ohio 2013 Supporting Member Award for Best Website.