The store may have looked like an easy mark, with an owner in his 70s known as a gentle, soft-spoken man. But Charles Augusto Jr. had been robbed before, and was prepared.
Harlem Store Owner Shoots 4 Robbers, Killing 2
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, New York Times
Thu, 08/13/2009 - 7:14pm
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