{"id":69850,"date":"2016-03-14T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=69850"},"modified":"2016-03-14T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:45:16","slug":"concealed-weapon-owner-shoots-hatchet-wielding-attacker-7-eleven-near-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/concealed-weapon-owner-shoots-hatchet-wielding-attacker-7-eleven-near-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Concealed-weapon owner shoots hatchet-wielding attacker in 7-Eleven near Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"
A masked man burst into a 7-Eleven near Seattle early Sunday morning, swinging a hatchet and slicing the store clerk.<\/p>\n
Before the masked man could seriously hurt anyone, though, a customer who was drinking his morning coffee pulled out a concealed weapon and fatally shot the attacker.<\/p>\n
Authorities did not name the attacker or the customer, but they did hail the concealed weapon owner as a hero.<\/p>\n
“This could have been disastrous,” King County Sheriff Sgt. Cindi West told KIRO7. “Had this guy not shot, who knows what would have happened? We might have a dead clerk right now, and instead we have a dead bad guy.”<\/p>\n
The clerk, Kuldeep Singh, suffered minor cuts to his stomach. He, too, thanked the customer for saving his life.<\/p>\n
“He [was] killing me,” Singh, 58, said of the hatchet-wielding attacker. Singh added that the customer was a “nice guy.”<\/p>\n
West said that the incident will be investigated fully but that the 60-year-old customer was currently being considered a Good Samaritan.<\/p>\n
The “customer, the shooter, is shaken up but from everything that we see right now from the scene – there’s no wrongdoing on his part,” she told King 5. “In fact, he probably saved a life in this case.”<\/p>\n
The incident in Burien, Wash., about eight miles south of downtown Seattle, probably will add to the ongoing debate about concealed weapons and their effect on crime.<\/p>\n
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