AL: Clerk shoots back at robbers: "Shots are fired. A store clerk is hit. Two robbers take off running. Decatur Police say it all happened at a Shell gas station on Austinville Road. Bullets hit the store clerk, but did not keep the clerk from working. Robbers ran into the Decatur gas station with guns late Thursday night. The store’s security cameras captured most of their moves. ”The clerk was struck in the arm both times. The two men then left the store with the money,” said Decatur Police Sergeant John Crouch. Police say one of them jumped the counter and got into a scuffle with the store clerk. Police say the clerk was able to get a gun, chase the robbers and shoot at them."


IL: Store clerk fires shot, scares off would-be robber: "A convenience-store clerk stopped an armed robbery in his store Thursday night by firing a gun from behind the counter to scare off the intruder, police said. Two employees told police they were standing behind the counter when a man entered the business, walked up to them and demanded all their money. He was holding a white T-shirt with a gun barrel sticking out of it and pointed it at the victims. As the gunman leaned over the counter, one of the employees grabbed a pistol, pointed it upward at a 45-degree angle and fired a single shot, police said. The would-be robber then ran out of the business. An employee ran outside and watched as the man headed around the side of the store, then west through an alley behind the building. The robber was described as black, in his 30s, about 6 feet tall and wearing a gray stocking cap and a gray sweater."


FL: Man shoots way out of encounter with suspects: "A witness helping sheriff's deputies find stolen trucks and cars had to shoot his way out when the people being investigated cornered him at a stoplight, police said. Ricardo Mohammed, 30, Sanford, told Orange City detectives he was in fear for his life when Christopher DeFronzo, 26, and Shawn Mahabir, 34, and a third person boxed him in with three cars at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Rhode Island and South Volusia avenues, reports show. Police said DeFronzo reached into Mohammed's vehicle and began beating him in the face and tried to pull him out of the vehicle. Mohammed reached for a .22-caliber handgun he had in his pickup and fired a shot as DeFronzo ran off, police said. Mohammed had a cut and bruising to his face, police said. "Officers who arrived at the scene believe he fired in self-defense," said Orange City police detective Sherif El-Shami. "The defendants were charged with intimidating a witness."