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Article: Robber carrying air pistol killed: Stateline clerk fires 10 shots.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2005
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Byline: Taryn Brodwater, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.
Dec. 28--A 47-year-old Otis Orchards man who tried to rob a Stateline smoke shop with an air pistol was shot 10 times and killed after the clerk pulled a gun of his own.
Joseph Kalani Hatchie entered Lew's Smoke Shop just before 8 p.m. Monday wearing a gray ski mask, authorities said, then pushed the air pistol into the clerk's stomach and demanded cash. Kootenai County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said the clerk acted as if he were getting a bag from beneath the counter, but instead pulled a .40-caliber semiautomatic gun and fired at Hatchie.
Hatchie apparently tucked the air ...