Fayetteville, North Carolina

From the Fayetteville Observer of December 23, 2006

Clerk foils robbery; 1 suspect is shot

Three teenagers are charged with trying to rob a Clinton Road food store Saturday afternoon.

One of the teens was wounded when a clerk at Draughon Food Store shot him.

Mark Maurice Tarver, 17, Aaron Marquis Carmichael, 18, and Lamyer Campbell, 18, are charged with attempted armed robbery and conspiring to rob the store at 1711 Clinton Road, arrest warrants say.

This is what happened, based on arrest warrants:

Clerk Tony Draughon and two other men were in the store when Tarver and Carmichael, wearing red bandanas over their faces, walked in.

Tarver walked to the register, pointed a silver handgun at Draughon and demanded money.

Carmichael stood by the door and acted as a lookout.

While Draughon was opening the cash register, he reached for a gun under the counter and began shooting.

Tarver and Carmichael ran but not before Tarver was shot in the hip.

Drove to hospital

The two ran back to a car parked on Cardinal Circle, where Campbell was waiting for them, and they drove to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.

Police arrested them at the hospital.

Tarver was treated and released. He was wearing blue hospital pajamas as he was being processed at the county magistrate’s office Saturday night.

A blood stain was visible on the right side of the long shirt.