Three Robbers Hit Bryan Convenience Store, Clerk Shoots Back

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(Can't believe you guys missed the one. I can't comment on details as it is an open investigation right now.)


A Bryan man is behind bars after police say he tried to rob a convenience store, but the clerk shot back.

Around 10pm on Friday, Bryan Police received a call from the Prince's Food Mart on Coulter Ave. The clerk reported three masked men tried to rob the clerk at gun point.

The clerk told police he shot at the suspects and believed he hit one of the robbers who left the store crawling.

A gunshot victim was reported to police at St. Joseph's Hospital in Bryan shortly after the robbery.

The person who drove the gunshot victim was detained for questioning and arrested for the robbery.

The suspect that was shot was still receiving medical attention at last report.

The third suspect is still at large and no specific description is available at this time.

Police arrested the driver of the gunshot victim, Ricky Jackson Jr., a 20 year old from Bryan.

If you have any information regarding this investigation contact the Bryan Police Department at 979-209-5300 or Crime Stoppers at 979-775-TIPS.

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My personal favorite part is the comments section where everyone is criticizing the response time...

Because they were there.

[jester]

My personal favorite part is the comments section

[74novaman]

Interesting. I wonder if this employee started carrying after the clerk got murdered in College Station this year.

Good on him for defending himself.

[shootthesheet]

Link?

[Excaliber]

Link?

Link here.

[mr surveyor]

"A gunshot victim was reported to police at St. Joseph's Hospital in Bryan shortly after the robbery"




that's my favorite part

idiot journalists

surv

[Excaliber]

"A gunshot victim was reported to police at St. Joseph's Hospital in Bryan shortly after the robbery"




that's my favorite part

idiot journalists

surv

Whatever happened to "a robbery suspect with a gunshot wound?"

[A-R]

"A gunshot victim was reported to police at St. Joseph's Hospital in Bryan shortly after the robbery"




that's my favorite part

idiot journalists

surv

Whatever happened to "a robbery suspect with a gunshot wound?"

While I agree with you gentlemen's sentiments, I do feel I have to defend the wording choices of my former journalist brethren (even if it is such a low form of journalism as K-buttocks - our nickname for that station when I lived briefly in Bryan).

This is obviously a very early story on this incident, before coroboration of the whole story from police to the media. The news organization wants to mention that someone was at the hospital with a gunshot wound, but cannot say "suspect" for fear that the person with gunshot wound is not the same as the person who was likely shot while committing the armed robbery. News outlets are very easy targets for libel/defamation lawsuits if they even hint that someone is involved in a crime when they were not. Until you have an iron-clad coroboration from the police that such-n-such person is in fact a suspect, you cannot label the person as such in a news story.

But just to show how subpar the journalism standards still are at k-buttocks, take a look at this line:

Police arrested the driver of the gunshot victim, Ricky Jackson Jr., a 20 year old from Bryan.

Read that quote a few times, then tell me is Ricky Jackson Jr the driver or the gunshot victim? Was he arrested or was he shot?

They avoided one potential lawsuit with the "gunshot victim" label instead of "gunshot robbery suspect" but probably opened themselves up to another with that horribly worded line.

KBTX wasn't known for high-quality journalism when I lived there more than 10 years ago. At least they got it half right this time.

[KD5NRH]

Whatever happened to "a robbery suspect with a gunshot wound?"

I prefer "leaky punk."