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LAST EDITED ON Mar-09-09 AT 07:04PM (MST)[p]You never expect to see this happen in a small town. It ended well, but a local girl will have to live with this for the rest of here life. It's good she had the know how to operate a gun. It probably saved here life.
I was in the store 6 hours after it happened and didn't find out about it till I got to work. Heres the story.
Community in shock following convenience store shooting
March 9th, 2009 @ 5:05pm
CENTERFIELD -- A strange case of violence in a small town in central Utah Monday morning left a would-be robber dead and a small community in shock.
Centerfield resident Antonio Ramos, 42, was killed when one of the women he was robbing grabbed his gun and shot him in the head.
"[There's] a lot of talk about, wondering what went wrong and what happened for sure. Until we are done, fully, with our investigation, there will those questions like there would be in any small town," said Centerfield Police Chief Stewart Jensen.
This is the first robbery Jensen has ever dealt with in his 10 years on the force in Centerfield, which is located south of Gunnison.
Just after midnight, police say Ramos approached an employee as she was taking out the garbage, pointed a gun at her and forced her inside.
Ramos told one employee to tie up the other, and then tried to tie up the second worker himself. She grabbed his .22-caliber rifle and fired, striking the robber once in the head. When police arrived, the suspect was dead.
"They did a good job defending themselves, under the circumstances. They had no idea what was going to happen to them after they were tied up, so I think they did what they felt they needed to do," said Sanpete County sheriff's Sgt. Greg Peterson.
Jensen says he had never dealt with the suspect before. We searched court records and could not find any history on Ramos either.
The two victims have been interviewed by investigators, and the Sanpete County attorney is expected to find they were justified in defending themselves.
Store officials did not want to talk about what happened, but they opened back up for business this morning.
I was in the store 6 hours after it happened and didn't find out about it till I got to work. Heres the story.
Community in shock following convenience store shooting
March 9th, 2009 @ 5:05pm
CENTERFIELD -- A strange case of violence in a small town in central Utah Monday morning left a would-be robber dead and a small community in shock.
Centerfield resident Antonio Ramos, 42, was killed when one of the women he was robbing grabbed his gun and shot him in the head.
"[There's] a lot of talk about, wondering what went wrong and what happened for sure. Until we are done, fully, with our investigation, there will those questions like there would be in any small town," said Centerfield Police Chief Stewart Jensen.
This is the first robbery Jensen has ever dealt with in his 10 years on the force in Centerfield, which is located south of Gunnison.
Just after midnight, police say Ramos approached an employee as she was taking out the garbage, pointed a gun at her and forced her inside.
Ramos told one employee to tie up the other, and then tried to tie up the second worker himself. She grabbed his .22-caliber rifle and fired, striking the robber once in the head. When police arrived, the suspect was dead.
"They did a good job defending themselves, under the circumstances. They had no idea what was going to happen to them after they were tied up, so I think they did what they felt they needed to do," said Sanpete County sheriff's Sgt. Greg Peterson.
Jensen says he had never dealt with the suspect before. We searched court records and could not find any history on Ramos either.
The two victims have been interviewed by investigators, and the Sanpete County attorney is expected to find they were justified in defending themselves.
Store officials did not want to talk about what happened, but they opened back up for business this morning.
