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04-17-2003, 11:55 AM
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Robber sues clerk who shot him during holdup
Associated Press
April 17, 2003
MUNCIE, Ind. -- A convicted robber is suing the convenience store clerk who shot him as he fled after a holdup.
Willie Brown, 44, claimed the clerk acted "maliciously and sadistically" in firing five shots as Brown ran out of Zipps Deli with money from the store's cash register.
Two bullets struck Brown's back and side, and he was arrested in a nearby home a few minutes after the holdup on March 15, 2002. Brown pleaded guilty to robbery in February and was sentenced last week to four years in prison.
In a lawsuit filed recently in Delaware County Circuit Court, Brown claimed "there was no need for the use of deadly force" when the clerk fired at him.
Brown, who seeks unspecified damages, said the shooting had "prevented him from transacting his business" and that he continued to "suffer nightmares as the result of this assault upon his life."
The clerk, Paul Grant, and his father, Richard B. Grant, the owner of Zipps Deli, were named as defendants.
Chief Deputy Prosecutor J.A. Cummins said he was aware of Brown's lawsuit but "found no criminal wrongdoing in what the clerk did in defending himself."
Brown was convicted of robbing an employee at a pizza restaurant in 1991. He also has two prior convictions for burglary.
Robber sues clerk who shot him during holdup
Associated Press
April 17, 2003
MUNCIE, Ind. -- A convicted robber is suing the convenience store clerk who shot him as he fled after a holdup.
Willie Brown, 44, claimed the clerk acted "maliciously and sadistically" in firing five shots as Brown ran out of Zipps Deli with money from the store's cash register.
Two bullets struck Brown's back and side, and he was arrested in a nearby home a few minutes after the holdup on March 15, 2002. Brown pleaded guilty to robbery in February and was sentenced last week to four years in prison.
In a lawsuit filed recently in Delaware County Circuit Court, Brown claimed "there was no need for the use of deadly force" when the clerk fired at him.
Brown, who seeks unspecified damages, said the shooting had "prevented him from transacting his business" and that he continued to "suffer nightmares as the result of this assault upon his life."
The clerk, Paul Grant, and his father, Richard B. Grant, the owner of Zipps Deli, were named as defendants.
Chief Deputy Prosecutor J.A. Cummins said he was aware of Brown's lawsuit but "found no criminal wrongdoing in what the clerk did in defending himself."
Brown was convicted of robbing an employee at a pizza restaurant in 1991. He also has two prior convictions for burglary.