CRIME STORY

Write a news story based on the following information. Use some quotes—choose those that would be most important and revealing. Be sure to use Associated Press style. (There are AP errors in the material.) Use inverted-pyramid format.

Michael Ernest Layoux, 22, is a clerk at a convenience store at 1284 East Forest Boulevard. He was robbed yesterday. Here is his account of the incident:

“First, you have to understand where the store is. It’s located in a remote area in the northeast corner of town. There’s nothing around that’s open at night, so I’m all alone in the store. I started carrying a gun to work last year after I read where two clerks at another convenience store in the city were robbed and killed. Carrying a gun is against company policy, but I figured I had to protect myself. We’re open 24 hours, and the store has a history of holdups, particularly at night when there aren’t any customers in the store. But it never happened to me personally before. Just after 11, when the store was empty except for me last night, this guy walks in and asks for a pack of Winston cigarettes. I handed him a pack, and then he pulled a gun and says, ‘You see what I got?’ He had a pistol, and he held it low, level with his hip, so no one outside the store could look in and see it. Then he asked me for the money, and I gave it to him.

“We never have more than $30 in cash in the register. It’s company policy. We put all the big bills we get into a floor safe we can’t open. So he didn’t get much, maybe $20. Then he motioned for me to move toward the cooler. We have a big cooler in the back for beer and soda and other stuff we have to keep cold. When he started shoving me toward the cooler, I really got scared. There’s no lock on the cooler, so he couldn’t lock me in while he was getting away. There’s no reason for him to put me in the cooler. I could walk right out. The only thing I could figure was that he wanted to shoot me, and he wanted to do it in some place where no one could see what was happening. That’s where the two other clerks were shot last year, in a cooler in their store. Since they were killed, I’ve kept a .25-caliber pistol under the counter, and when he motioned for me to get into the cooler, I shot him. He’d started turning toward the cooler, and then he must have heard me cocking the pistol because he started jerking his head back around toward me. I shot him three times in the chest and side, but I didn’t know right away that I hit him.

“He just ran out through the front door. He didn’t even open it. He ran right through the glass. I called the police, and they found his body in a field about 200 yards away. He was dead, and now I’ve lost my job. But I wouldn’t do it any different. The police talked to me for almost two hours, and they said it was okay, that I had acted in self-defense.

“Then this morning, just after 8, I got a call at home from my district manager, and he said I’m fired because it’s against company policy to have a gun in the store. It’s a real shame, because I’m still a college student and I need the job. I can attend classes during the day and then work at night at the store. I’ve been doing it for four years now, and I want to graduate in a couple more months. But I can understand the company’s rules. Most people don’t know how to handle guns. I do. I’ve been around them and using them all my life.”

Other facts:

• Company officials refused to comment about the robbery or the firing.

• District Attorney Ramone Hernandez confirmed that his office considered the shooting self-defense and would not prosecute Layoux.

• Officer Alan Nega, who investigated the incident, said the body found in the field near the store was that of Robert A. Wiess, 2032 Turf Way, Apt. 388.

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