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Convenience store worker uses gun to disarm man threatening to kill someone deputies say
By Kayla McDermott
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. (WPTV) – A convenience store employee took matters into her own hands when an armed man entered the store and ordered people out at gunpoint.The incident happened in Indian River County.
Video shows the woman push the suspect out of the store after reaching into her purse and pulling out her own gun.
That armed suspect is identified as Calvert Allen.
The employee pointed a gun right at Allen’s face, and deputies say she began wrestling him for his gun in the parking lot
Investigators say the woman fired two warning shots at him, then hit Allen with her gun until she finally was able to get control of his handgun, which she turned over to a responding deputy.
Allen is a frequent customer whom the worker knows.
“He’s going through a mental health crisis; he just got out of the behavioral health center,” the employee said.
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I guess he was a regular enough customer, that she knew him well enough, otherwise she would have (justifiably) shot him and ended his mental health problems forever. Lucky him.
She displayed compassion for her customer.
Which is a good thing.
Yesterday, the grown adopted son of one of my neighbors got drunk, got into an argument with the man who raised him from a young child, and beat him enough to put him into the hospital. (Turns out no broken bones or brain damage, but still there.)
Thinking realistically about it, I’d shoot the son, whom I’ve known since childhood, to protect his father – one of the gentlest men to walk the face of the earth.
But I’d hate to do it, and what it would do to his father. Since he is stronger than I am (even AB Son doesn’t want to go mano-a-mano with the guy) I’d have no choice but to use deadly force.
Just hoping he sobers up, the sheriffs capture him, and nothing worse happens.
I hit the KBTX and saw the pic of the store employee. Allen would have been DOA if the young lady would have sat on him. Check the pic out.
Still trying to figure out why, when the Ruger 10-22 magazine is foolproof and ubiquitous, Savage designed their own unique magazine (which costs three times as much).
Good question. The Winchester Wildcat uses a rotary magazine very similar to the 10/22. When I worked at Bass Pro, I found they seem interchangeable. Haven’t tested the theory, and that reminds me I have a Wildcat. It, and a few of my other .22s including two or three of the Heritage Rough Riders, has been in my daughter’s room for a while. I have the Rossi Rio Bravo and some other .22s in my room, and honestly forgot I bought the Wildcat back when I was averaging 1.5 guns a month at BPS. I gave my son the antique Marlin Ballard rimfire I picked up for $50.
Maybe I should consolidate my rimfires… Eventually I’ll have 4-5 safes to hold most of the collection.
My grandkids got one each. A Marlin 39A, a Winchester 75 match rifle, a 1906 pump gun, a No. 16 Remington, and a NIB 10-22. Helped clean some of ’em out.