The Armed Citizen® Feb. 23, 2024

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posted on February 23, 2024
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One suspect is dead and two others were wounded in a shooting incident Albuquerque police are saying was a "justifiable homicide."

Police responded to a call just after midnight on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023, to find one person dead at the scene with a gunshot wound. Two other suspects were discovered nearby with injuries and were treated and released from a local hospital. According to investigators, initial evidence suggests that the shooting occurred in self-defense. (KOAT 7 Action News; Albuquerque, N.M.; 12/23/23)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives – May 1972

Mrs. Willie Green, 65, was clerking in a Chicago store when one of two "customers" pulled a gun and rushed to the cash register. Mrs. Green grabbed the robber's gun and screamed. The store manager, Benjamin Johnson, 82, then shot the bandit in the chest with a .38-cal. revolver, and the other man fled. (The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill.)

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