Reply #34: Police: Man Wounded Would-Be Robber In Self-Defense [View All]

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Police say a car-wash customer shot and injured an armed male who apparently intended to rob him at the south-side business Sunday night.

The customer, Dave Humphries (pictured, right), said he exchanged gunfire with the male at a car wash on the 4200 block of South Meridian Street. Humphries said the male had approached him with a rifle as Humphries attempted to wash his own vehicle.

"He looked at me and said, 'I'm going to shoot you,' " Humphries told RTV6's Jack Rinehart. "I dropped the (car-wash) wand and I said, 'Let me get my wallet.' And I reached inside my jacket pocket and retrieved a revolver I had.

"It kind of helped us out a little bit -- we have somebody off the street that could have done harm to somebody else," Labanauskas said. "But the victim was still extremely lucky."

The 17-year-old's mother, Kelly Army, told Rinehart she didn't blame Humphries for firing. "I would have done the same thing. I would have shot back, too," Army said.


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