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Related: About this forumStore owner beats back armed robber: 'My blood boiled over.'
Luis Quizhpe doesn't remember getting shot as he grabbed a bat and swatted at a gunman holding his brother-in-law by the throat in their Logan Square store.
But he can still hear the loud bangs of gunfire. Ten shots in all as he and his brother-in-law Luis Ernesto Aucaquizhpe bashed and battered and finally chased the robbers out of Quizhpe's Gifts and Sports Tuesday afternoon.
"I thought it was a toy, but what made me frightened and really made me angry was when they grabbed my brother-in-law by the neck and they were pointing the gun at him," Quizhpe, 62, said Wednesday from Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was nursing a leg wound.
"It was like the Fourth of July. Pow, pow, pow," he said. "Then he was yelling, 'Kill the (expletive)."
But he can still hear the loud bangs of gunfire. Ten shots in all as he and his brother-in-law Luis Ernesto Aucaquizhpe bashed and battered and finally chased the robbers out of Quizhpe's Gifts and Sports Tuesday afternoon.
"I thought it was a toy, but what made me frightened and really made me angry was when they grabbed my brother-in-law by the neck and they were pointing the gun at him," Quizhpe, 62, said Wednesday from Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was nursing a leg wound.
"It was like the Fourth of July. Pow, pow, pow," he said. "Then he was yelling, 'Kill the (expletive)."
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-11/news/chi-cops-man-shot-during-logan-square-robbery-20130410_1_fire-extinguisher-gunman-fleeing-robbers
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Store owner beats back armed robber: 'My blood boiled over.' (Original Post)
Paul E Ester
Apr 2013
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Warpy
(110,913 posts)1. Next time, aim that bat at the punk's head
There is nothing like a fractured skull to slow a thug down, gun or no gun.
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)2. Works on Zombies too
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)3. He cracked 5 or 6 times in the noggin, from what I saw.
But I don't think he was swinging for the fences.
So are those store owners not legally allowed to have a firearm, since it's Chicago?
Warpy
(110,913 posts)4. I think that must be the case.
A well aimed bat is a damned good defensive weapon, especially when the shooter is too distracted to aim.