North Carolina: Husband comes to wife’s rescue during robbery
By Chief Pistol Packin' Mama on June 30, 2010 in Gun TrainingMoore County deputies say a convenience store holdup turned into a shootout between the alleged robbers and a store clerk’s husband.
It happened at the Exxon Stop at the intersection of U.S. 1 and Camp Easter Road in the Lakeview Community – just south of Vass, N.C – a little before 10:30 Monday night.
Deputies say clerk Grace Kelly – who is in her 70s – was closing the store for the night when several men walked in and tried to rob it. Kelly’s husband – 78-year-old Angus Kelly – was in the parking lot waiting for his wife and came to her aid with a shotgun.
Moore County Sheriff Lane Carter told ABC11 Angus Kelly fired on the robbers hitting one in the face. In the resulting gunfight, both Kelly and his wife were wounded.
