Police charge South Richmond man in convenience store shooting
Richmond police have charged a 30-year-old South Richmond man in the aborted robbery of a convenience store that left him and the store owner wounded.
James Grooms of the 2200 block of Chalfont Drive remains hospitalized after being shot by a friend of the owner of Golden Food Market at 2701 Jefferson Davis Highway in South Richmond. Grooms shot the store owner and fired at several customers, missing them, in the attempted robbery on Saturday just after 1 p.m.
Police charged Grooms with attempted robbery, use of a firearm, and possession of a firearm by a felon. He remains in the custody of the Richmond Sheriff's Office while being treated for a gunshot wound to the torso at VCU Medical Center. No information was available on his condition.
The attempted robbery was the second time in a month that a shopkeeper at Golden Market was shot. Said "Saim" Messaf was shot on June 12. The store's owner, who police did not identify, suffered non-life threatening wounds in Saturday's shooting. No information was available today on his condition.
-- Michael Martz
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Felons having guns. . . this is terrible! Maybe Kaine and the other leftinistas can pass a law or something. Er, maybe a “Felon with a Gun Loophole Law” or something. Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em!
Maybe the store just needs to post prominent “No Guns Allowed” signs in the window. That should do it don’t you think?
So this trigger-happy armed robber was a convicted felon with a gun. Well, right above this story is another one where the shooter was a convicted felon. My, my…our ‘law’ forbidding convicted felons to own guns has a real stunning effect on ‘em, huh?
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