February 18, 2010 Houston armored car guard shot, car set ablaze www.privateofficer.com
At least two gunmen struck shortly after 11:30 a.m. when the Triple D Security armored car pulled up to a Kroger store in the 6300 block of Telephone.
Customer Keith Mallard said he stopped in at the supermarket to use their ATM machine when he heard another security guard cry out, “Code blue, code blue.”
“The next thing I heard was, ‘boom, boom, boom’ and we all ran to the back,” Mallard said, still shaken from the ordeal.
Mallard followed other customers to the back of the store when he was stopped by a group Houston firefighters who were shopping there. When he told them about the robbery and gunfire, the firefighters raced to the front of the store with Mallard close behind them.
He saw the guard on the ground in front of the store with what appeared to be bullet wounds to his chest and abdomen. He was up and alert and he was talking, Mallard said.
The guard was taken to an area hospital in unknown condition.
Mallard said the scene was chaotic inside the store.
“It was terrible, terrible. Everybody was just running,” he said.
Police at the scene said the gunmen fled and remain at large. It wasn’t known how much cash they might have gotten away with.
A car parked behind a Discount Tire Company store adjacent to the supermarket was set ablaze soon after the hold-up. Police believe it may have been the one the gunmen used when they staged the violent hold-up.
Elizabeth Russell, a regular customer at the Kroger store, said she was talking to her daughter on a cell phone when she heard the “code blue” alarm.
“I said, ‘I’ve got to go. There’s a robbery,” Russell said in the parking lot while she was loading groceries into her car.
Russell followed a crowd of store employees through the store toward the rear exit.
“It all happened so quick. I didn’t get scared then … it was after the fact,” Russell said.
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