A Chesterfield County retailer clerk shot and killed an armed robber Saturday night time, the sheriff introduced Monday.
About 8:45 p.m., officers have been known as to an armed theft on the Highway 9 Mini Mart & Tobacco retailer on Highway 9 in Pageland, in accordance with a information launch. There was a person who was shot and killed within the retailer.
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The retailer clerk informed officers that the person entered the shop and pointed a gun at his head and demanded cash.
The worker pulled out his gun and shot the robber a number of occasions.
Officers confirmed this occurred after viewing the shop’s surveillance video.
Sheriff Cambo Streater mentioned South Carolina legislation states: “An individual who shouldn’t be engaged in an illegal exercise and who’s assaulted in one other place the place he has a proper to be, together with his place of employment, has not the responsibility to retreat and has the precise to face his floor and meet power with power, together with lethal power, if he fairly believes that it’s crucial to forestall dying or critical bodily harm to himself or one other particular person or to forestall the fee of a violent crime.”
“Sheriff Streater strongly helps our residents’ proper to guard themselves,” the press launch states.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division processed the scene.
