By Jim Irvine

Raleigh-Durham News 14 http://rdu.news14.com/content/your_news/durhamchapel_hill/?SecID=42&ArID...
" target="_blank">reported on an attempted robbery outside a jewelry store earlier this month, which was stopped when a third person observed what was happening and intervened, firing three shots with his own gun.

From the story:

Police say the man with a gun was 24-year-old Rashad Rogers. Baum says Rogers demanded his wallet, and when Rogers saw it did not have any cash in it, Rogers threatened him.
Baum recalls, "He said, 'Aw, cuz,' he goes, 'I'm going to have to kill you.'"
Meanwhile, David Lineberry was sitting in his office. He looked out the window and saw what was happening.
"As they were approaching him," David Lineberry explained, "I see a weapon being produced. I immediately grabbed my weapon and proceeded outside."
Lineberry fired three shots at the suspect, who he says had pointed his gun at him. The suspect ran. Soon after, Durham Police, with the help of a K-9 named Sherlock, tracked down Rashad Rogers in a nearby apartment complex.

This is a good story. No one was killed. Only the gunman was injured, and he is now in custody of police. But then come the comments that grate on me...

But neither Lineberry nor the Durham Police want other people to follow his lead.
"We do not encourage private citizens to use deadly force," said Kammie Michael, who works with the Durham Police Department. "You have got to be extremely careful to use deadly force."

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