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Sound off, Odessa

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Series: Sound off, Odessa | Story 12

ABC News recently released a video of an armed robbery of a Walgreen's Pharmacy in Benton Township, Michigan which took place in May. The video showed two masked, hooded robbers brandishing weapons entering the nearly deserted store at 4:30 a.m. They grabbed an employee as a hostage and dragged him around the store. Pharmacist Jeremy Hoven tried to call 911, but then one of the two robbers jumped over the pharmacy counter and pointed his pistol at Hoven, who drew his own pistol, a Smith & Wesson 357 Magnum revolver, in self defense. Hoven fired several rounds, causing the would-be robbers to f...

 

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