U.S.: Harlem shop owner on killing robbers: “I did the only thing I could do”
- I did the only thing I could do at that time. Tried as long as I could not to, tried to get out of it; they wouldn’t let me get out of it.
- New York City shop owner Charles Augusto Jr. • On having to shoot suspects in a robbery in Harlem. He didn’t want to, but they started pistol-whipping an employee and making the situation escalate. He killed two and injured two others in the act of self-defense. He will not be charged. • source