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Store Owner Shoots, Kills Would-be Robber

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. --  One man is dead and another is in police custody today after an attempted robbery at a Tuscaloosa gas station.

Surveillance video shows the two men entering the Raceway on McFarland Boulevard wearing ski masks around 2:45 Thursday morning.

The store owner says one of them, a 19-year-old man, put a gun to his head and demanded money.

That's when the owner says he grabbed his own gun and started shooting, killing the 19-year-old.

The owner then pointed his gun at 22-year-old Jamie Marcus Witherspoon and told him to get on the ground where he held him until police arrived.

Lieutenant Lloyd Baker with the Tuscaloosa Homicide unit says the owner is not being charged with any crime because it was a case of self-defense.

Witherspoon was unarmed and is being held on a $20,000 bond.

He is charged with first degree robbery and Baker says he could possibly face charges for the death of his 19-year-old accomplice.

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