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Would-be robber beaten by beauty school students in Shreveport
07:36 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Associated Press
SHREVEPORT -- An armed robber had to be taken to the hospital for stitches after he was beaten with curling irons by the beauty school students he allegedly tried to hold up.
The man entered Blalock's Beauty College Tuesday, brandishing a gun, and told the women there to lie down on the floor, according to manager Dianne Mitchell.
After collecting the money, the would-be robber ran toward the front door and that's when Mitchell tripped him, she said. As he fell, the man dropped his gun and Abram Bishop, the lone male employee, jumped on his back, pinning him down.
Seizing the opportunity, Mitchell rallied her students, who had armed themselves with curling irons, chairs, a wooden table leg and their fists.
"We moved some furniture after that," Mitchell laughed.
The man, now crying in pain, tried to crawl away from the students, she said. His blood covered their uniforms.
"I grabbed his legs and wouldn't let him go. I pulled him back. He wasn't going to get up out of here and tell everyone he robbed us. When he came in here, he knocked down a beehive and sent the bees flying all over," she said.
Jared Gipson, 24, of Shreveport was charged with armed robbery, Shreveport police said. He will be booked into the city jail once he is released from the hospital.
"He received several lacerations to the head and was taken to LSU Hospital in Shreveport," spokeswoman Kacee Hargrave said. " Nobody else was seriously injured besides the suspect."
Sharon Blalock, owner of the school, said she couldn't be more proud of her students and employees.
"They just whooped the hell out of him," she said.
But Sgt. Kevin Crow, head of the Shreveport police armed robbery unit, said it's not always a good idea to fight someone who is armed.
"Any time you are going against a guy with a gun, you have to ask yourself if your life is worth risking over some material item you have in your store or on your person. When it works out it's great ... but when it doesn't, usually the results are pretty tragic," Crow said.
The gun, police learned later, was not loaded. But that didn't matter to the students.
"He got what he deserved," Renae Collier, 26, said.
Early Tuesday, before the robbery, Mitchell had gathered her students and told them they needed to watch out for one another, she said.
"It's like we were saying in class, we have to stay together as a team," Mitchell said. "You can tell any prospective students, B lalock's Beauty College has got your back."
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Would-be robber beaten by beauty school students in Shrevepo
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