Forsyth, Georgia

From the Macon Telegraph of September 22, 2005

Gun battle erupts as armed robber flees Macon store

A Macon armed robbery ended in a shootout with the store owner and a masked armed robber near the Pleasant Hill neighborhood Wednesday night.

At about 9:30 p.m., a gunman entered the Corner Grocery at 2057 Walnut St., held up the clerk and took off with the cash drawer, Macon police detective Wilton Collins said.

The store owner saw the gunman going in the store, went for his own weapon and ordered the masked man to stop, Collins said.

The owner fired three shots at the fleeing robber, who returned fire, bullet for bullet, as he ran down Forest Avenue toward Riverside Drive, Collins said.

Officers roped off the store and a home on Forest Avenue where they were looking for bullets and other evidence.

Sgt. Joe Currens was using a flashlight to check for possible blood spots on the pavement in case the robber was hit.

"We just want to make sure," Currens said. "You never can tell."