Seeing robbers flee, LR witness opens fire, hits wrong vehicle

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Seeing robbers flee, LR witness opens fire, hits wrong vehicle

By Spencer Willems

Posted: November 13, 2012 at 12:06 a.m.

Karen E. Segrave Little Rock police work the scene of an armed robbery at the Arvest Bank on Chenal Parkway on Monday afternoon. According to police, two men robbed a man and shot him. A witness from a nearby gas station fired one shot at the fleeing robbers.

After watching a pair of men in masks rob and shoot a man in the leg outside a bank early Monday afternoon, an unidentified man standing across the street pulled a gun and fired at the robbers’ vehicle as they fled through a busy parking lot.

Man shot during attempted bank robbery

Police say a would-be robber shot a man outside a bank Monday. (By Gavin Lesnick)
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