Oooops! "Police: Customer with concealed carry license kills robber at corner store"

[DonP]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-1-dead-in-shooting-at-gage-park-business-20151031-story.html

I know it's anecdotal and anecdotal stories only matter on DU when they are about the criminal use of a firearm. Just glad Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart didn't try and stop this man's concealed carry permit applications like he has so many others.

"A robbery was thwarted at a Southwest Side corner store Saturday night when a patron with a concealed carry license shot and killed an armed robber, authorities said.

The dead man has been identified as Reginald Gildersleeve, 55, of the 5000 block of South California Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Gildersleeve was pronounced dead on the scene at 7:10 p.m., according to the medical examiner's office.

Citing preliminary information, police said a man walked into a store around 7 p.m. in the 2700 block of West 51st Street in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, announced a robbery to an employee working behind the counter and displayed a handgun.

Another employee came from the back of the store and the gunman pointed his weapon at her, police said. He then made her go to the back of the store, which also serves as a currency exchange.

After that, a customer who was also inside the business pulled out a gun and opened fire at the robber, killing him, police said. Police initially said the robber was possibly in his 40s.

Police said the shooter has a valid concealed carry license and a valid firearm owner's identification card."

Not in the article but in the police report, the unidentified concealed carrier is a Hispanic Male. But the Gage Park neighborhood is almost completely Hispanic, so that's not a surprise. You know, part of an ethnic group that doesn't want to carry guns according to "studies" that prove "gun culture" will fade.

Now somebody has to go break the sad new to Shannon Watts, who really believes this never happens.