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Georgia Restaurant Worker Fatally Shoots Armed Intruder In Self-Defense

https://www.theepochtimes.com/georgia-restaurant-worker-fatally-shoots-armed-intruder-in-self-defense_4921174.html

An employee at a restaurant in Georgia fatally shot an armed intruder
in self-defense after the masked assailant pistol-whipped the worker
during an attempted robbery, authorities say.
An American Philly N Wings in Warner Robins, Georgia. (Courtesy of
Google Maps via NTD News)

Warner Robins Police Department Sgt. Justin Clark told Fox News in an
interview on Tuesday that the intruder, identified as Joshua Hickey,
entered an American Philly & Wings restaurant on Dec. 5 and demanded
money.

“Hickey … had a stolen pistol,” Clark told the network, explaining
that he entered the restaurant and demanded money from the manager,
which led to a struggle with the employee.

The worker, who was not identified, suffered a head injury after being
pistol-whipped and knocked to the ground, Clark said. After managing
to get back on his feet, the employee pulled his own legally owned
pistol and fired three shots at Hickey, striking him twice, according
to police.

“Once Mr. Hickey was shot, he fled from the restaurant but only made
it about 75 yards before collapsing on the street,” the official said.
Authorities transported him to the hospital, but he died of his
wounds.

When Clark was asked in the interview how the worker was doing
mentally after experiencing the fatal encounter, he told the anchor
the worker “took it pretty hard.”

“Of course, nobody wants to be in that situation and … he was doing
his best to come out of it okay,” the police sergeant said.

In recent years, the United States has seen overall crime increase
after enjoying decades of generally declining crime. In particular,
robberies, carjacking, burglaries, and theft, have increased over the
past year or so.

Clark told Fox News that Warner Robins, a city in Houston and Peach
counties located in the central part of Georgia, has not necessarily
seen an increase in crime, although the area did report “a fair share
of crime,” including violent crime and theft.

When asked to react to major cities reporting an increase in robberies
and homicides in recent years, Clark blamed it on staff shortages,
adding that it is hard for law enforcement to do their jobs
efficiently nowadays.

“It’s terrible, a lot of it has to do with, you know, officer
shortages,” he told the network. “Everybody, including us, is dealing
with this. Unfortunately, it is hard to get people to do the job
nowadays.”