PHILADELPHIA - Authorities say a store employee shot and killed a would-be robber who brandished a fake gun Thursday night in North Philadelphia.
Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department were called to the Dollar General on the 900 block of West Girard Avenue just before 9 p.m.
for reports of an armed robbery. Police Inspector D.F. Pace told reporters that a 36-year-old man approached the store counter and demanded money from a female clerk.
The clerk alerted a store manager that a robbery was happening and the manager tried to talk to the suspect. Pace said the suspect continued to demand money from the register and threatened to shoot the store employees.