Forrest City, Arkansas

From the Forrest City Times Herald of December 18, 2006

Store employee shoots at would-be robber

Sheriff’s deputies and Forrest City Police are investigating three separate violent incidents, one of which has resulted in an arrest.

Early this morning, a would-be robber was allegedly chased away from the Phillips 66 station at Wheatley.

Salih A. Nomi, an employee at the Phillips 66, reported that around 2:10 a.m., a man wearing a dark hat and ski mask came to the door and while standing in the doorway pointed a black handgun and told him, “Give me all the money.”

Nomi reported he told him OK, but instead pulled a 9 mm pistol and fired a shot at the suspect, which missed, shattering the door glass. The suspect fired one round, missing Nomi, and ran. Nomi said he pursued the suspect and fired four more rounds at him, missing him all four times.