Two robbery suspects fleeing from a jewelry heist were hospitalized Monday after the store owner and an employee followed them over a block wall and shot them in a Kmart parking lot, police said.
Sgt. Joel Tranter said that the robbery began when a woman accomplice entered Luxor Jewelers in south Phoenix.
"The jewelry store has a security mechanism where they have to lock and unlock the doors as people enter and exit," Tranter said. "As soon as she tried to leave, two additional suspects rushed in. They were each armed when they came in, and they proceeded to rob the store."
As the robbers fled, the owner and his employee snatched a couple of guns and ran after them.
They shot at the robbers in a back alley, then followed them over a 6-foot-tall block wall and exchanged gunfire again next door in the parking lot of a Kmart.
Tranter said two of the robbers were hit. One went down with life threatening injuries in the parking lot.
The woman who first entered the store and the other male robbery suspect took off in a red vehicle, but they were later caught at a hospital. The man had serious injuries. The woman was uninjured, Tranter said.
The robbery suspects have not been identified. Tranter said they'll be charged with ``multiple counts'' of armed robbery and assault. The store owner and the store employee also have not been identified.
One of the employees was grazed by a bullet. He was treated at the scene, Tranter said.
"We believe they recovered all of the jewelry," he said.
Source: 620ktar
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