The camels have arrived!
Nov. 12th, 2007 11:22 amCamels walk through Rockefeller Plaza
Image (c) Eric "Stack" Quinlan
Nov. 12th, 2007
Camels walk through Rockefeller Plaza
Image (c) Eric "Stack" Quinlan
The armed robber who burst into a Queens bodega with his gun blazing wound up begging for his life after the deli owner hacked him with a machete.
"He whipped out his gun. I whipped out my machete, and we went to war," said Joan Marte, 46, the owner of Erick Grocery in Woodhaven. "When I hit him with the machete, he said, 'Please don't kill me.'"
When it was over, the suspect, Omar Rodriguez, 27, of Brooklyn, was missing a finger and part of an ear. Instead of demanding cash, the robber was asking the grocer to call 911, Marte said.
An ambulance took Rodriguez to Jamaica Hospital. Now he's facing attempted murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon charges. Rodriguez fired two shots from a semiautomatic pistol, which was recovered, cops said.
Marte, who immigrated from the Dominican Republic about 23 years ago and saved to buy the deli last year, was not injured.
Police do not believe Marte, a married father of four, will be charged with a crime.
Although neighbors outside the store yesterday hailed him as a hero, Marte said he was only trying to protect himself and his livelihood.
"It isn't worth it to kill a robber," he said. "I'm not an assassin, or a killer."
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"He whipped out his gun. I whipped out my machete, and we went to war," said Joan Marte, 46, the owner of Erick Grocery in Woodhaven. "When I hit him with the machete, he said, 'Please don't kill me.'"
When it was over, the suspect, Omar Rodriguez, 27, of Brooklyn, was missing a finger and part of an ear. Instead of demanding cash, the robber was asking the grocer to call 911, Marte said.
An ambulance took Rodriguez to Jamaica Hospital. Now he's facing attempted murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon charges. Rodriguez fired two shots from a semiautomatic pistol, which was recovered, cops said.
Marte, who immigrated from the Dominican Republic about 23 years ago and saved to buy the deli last year, was not injured.
Police do not believe Marte, a married father of four, will be charged with a crime.
Although neighbors outside the store yesterday hailed him as a hero, Marte said he was only trying to protect himself and his livelihood.
"It isn't worth it to kill a robber," he said. "I'm not an assassin, or a killer."
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Nov. 12th, 2007 02:57 pmLooks like the Supreme Court may actually weigh in on the 2nd Amendment case for the first time since 1939. I most sincerely hope the Court will uphold the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that
Having been on the business end of people trying to break down my door at 3.30am, I can't tell you just how much you need a weapon in a case like this, if only to cool heads.
We'll see how this one goes.
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concluded that it [the amendment - cw] protects an individual's right to firearms and struck down a Washington, D.C., ban on handguns.I hope the Supreme Court has it in them to hand a victory to all the decent legal gun owners in this country, and to those like me who want to become one but can't because of the current legislation that disarms decent people in the face of armed criminals.
Having been on the business end of people trying to break down my door at 3.30am, I can't tell you just how much you need a weapon in a case like this, if only to cool heads.
We'll see how this one goes.
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