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A customer at a North Charleston Waffle House ignored the gun-free zone sign there and came in for breakfast. A young man decided that gun-free Waffle House was a safe place to rob. He was wrong.
The Waffle House crew was busily going about its typical early-morning ritual — smothering and scrambling breakfast, clanking through the dirty dishes — when a robber jolted them out of their routine.
A customer decided he was having none of that and opened fire in the North Charleston eatery, thwarting the holdup Saturday by fatally shooting the suspect.
The young man who tried to rob the restaurant was rushed to Medical University Hospital, but he later died, police spokeswoman Angela Johnson said.
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Said an officer at the scene: “It says something about firearms … for good people with firearms being in the right hands.” The policeman said he was not authorized to speak for the North Charleston Police Department.”
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