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Customer Shoots, Kills Auto Shop Robber

2 Other Robbers Flee Scene; No Other Injuries Reported

POSTED: 8:08 am CST January 22, 2004
UPDATED: 9:09 am CST January 22, 2004

A customer caught in the middle of a store robbery Wednesday night fought back, killing one of the suspected robbers.

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Police told News2Houston three men wearing masks, carrying guns, kicked in the front door of Pawn's Tire and Wheelz on West Little York at Stuebner Airline in north Houston around 6:30 p.m.

"One of the suspects went to the rear of the business. There was a shooting between one of the customers and a suspect," Houston Police Department investigator Steve Straughter said.

The other two robbers ran away.

Several other customers were in the business at the time, but none of them were injured.



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