A STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING: Cops: Robber fatally shot in Little Five Points.
Atlanta police still had not released the name Sunday of an armed citizen who shot a would-be robber in Little Five Points on Saturday morning.
The dead man, who also has not been identified, was killed after allegedly trying to rob a group of people waiting in line to buy the new, $180 LeBron James sneakers.
Witnesses told one man in line outside Wish, a clothing and shoe store on Moreland Avenue, pulled out a gun and shot the would-be robber.
The shooter then got back in line, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Police have not charged anyone and for now consider the shooting to be self-defense. No additional information was being released Sunday morning, said Officer John Chafee, an Atlanta Police Department spokesman.
βHe [the shooter] really stood up for all of us,β said Taylor White, who told Channel 2 that he was in line when the shooting happened. βI salute the homie that did that.β
The robber, apparently, was after people’s “shoe money.”