A stick-up man tried to rob a Louisiana beauty school — and ended up getting an extremely nasty makeover.
Cops say Jared Gipson, 24, entered Blalock's Beauty College in Shreveport at noon Tuesday and announced a robbery.
"I thought it was someone just playing, but then I saw that big old gun," manager Dianne Mitchell told The Times of Shreveport. "He said, 'Get down, big mama.'"
The masked robber ordered the people in the room — 18 to 20 students and teachers — to lie on the floor, leading some to think they were going to be killed.
"You'll be the first to go," he allegedly growled to one crying woman.
After collecting everyone's money, the gunman pushed the school's sole male employee, Abram Bishop, toward the back of the room — but then turned and began to run out the door.
That's when Mitchell stuck out her leg. The robber tripped over it, dropped the gun and slammed into a wall.
Bishop immediately jumped on his back, forcing the stick-up man down to the floor.
"Get that sucker!" yelled Mitchell, and the dozen and a half women present grabbed whatever they could get their hands on — curling irons, chairs, a table leg — and piled on.
"They just whooped the hell out of him," said school owner Sharon Blalock.
Crying in pain, bleeding and having soiled his pants, the gunman tried to crawl away, but the angry women held on to his legs and kept hitting him until police arrived.
Gipson was charged with armed robbery and taken to LSU Hospital in a neck brace, having suffered multiple lacerations. No one else was seriously hurt.
"He got what he deserved," said student Renae Collier.
Gipson's gun turned out to be unloaded.
"He walked into the wrong place at the wrong time," one police officer told KTBS-TV of Shreveport.
"You can tell any prospective students: Blalock's Beauty College has got your back," said Mitchell.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159708,00.html
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southerngale wrote:"Get that sucker!" yelled Mitchell, and the dozen and a half women present grabbed whatever they could get their hands on — curling irons, chairs, a table leg — and piled on.
"They just whooped the hell out of him," said school owner Sharon Blalock.
Crying in pain, bleeding and having soiled his pants, the gunman tried to crawl away, but the angry women held on to his legs and kept hitting him until police arrived.
I would love to see the video of that if they had one.
Soiled his pants....I guess they really beat the <censored> out of him.
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Beauty-School Beatdown - Don't mess with Cajuns! *FOLLOW-UP*
Here is a follow up on that story
Would be beauty college robber makes court appearance in bandage
The Associated Press
Jared Gipson displayed his beauty school makeover in court.
Gipson, 24, who is charged with the botched armed robbery of a Shreveport beauty college in which an instructor and her students beat him bloody, made his initial appearance in Caddo District Court sporting a bandage across his forehead and a black eye that was swollen shut.
Gipson, who appeared via video monitor from Caddo Correctional Center on Friday, was injured after he allegedly held up Blalock's Beauty College.
Gipson was arrested on Tuesday. Officials said he was the man who tried to rob instructor Dianne Mitchell, her students and employees. As he tried to flee, he was tripped and subsequently beaten by Mitchell and her students.
In a police report, the man told officers he "tried to rob the business because he needed drugs."
The report states that "the offender stated he was then beaten by an angry mob of black women. They beat him with curling irons, blow dryers, table legs and a wooden post."
Afterward, the report said the man was taken to LSU Hospital in Shreveport for treatment of "multiple knots, cuts, bruises and injuries."
Mitchell said she was sure Gipson didn't feel too good.
"It wasn't anything personal. We had to do what we had to do to protect ourselves," she said.
Court records indicate Gipson was convicted of armed robbery in Lincoln Parish in February 1999. He was sentenced to five years in prison with probation ending in March 2004, the records show.
In Shreveport, Gipson was charged with misdemeanor offenses of public drunkenness and disturbing the peace in November 2004, records show.
Would be beauty college robber makes court appearance in bandage
The Associated Press
Jared Gipson displayed his beauty school makeover in court.
Gipson, 24, who is charged with the botched armed robbery of a Shreveport beauty college in which an instructor and her students beat him bloody, made his initial appearance in Caddo District Court sporting a bandage across his forehead and a black eye that was swollen shut.
Gipson, who appeared via video monitor from Caddo Correctional Center on Friday, was injured after he allegedly held up Blalock's Beauty College.
Gipson was arrested on Tuesday. Officials said he was the man who tried to rob instructor Dianne Mitchell, her students and employees. As he tried to flee, he was tripped and subsequently beaten by Mitchell and her students.
In a police report, the man told officers he "tried to rob the business because he needed drugs."
The report states that "the offender stated he was then beaten by an angry mob of black women. They beat him with curling irons, blow dryers, table legs and a wooden post."
Afterward, the report said the man was taken to LSU Hospital in Shreveport for treatment of "multiple knots, cuts, bruises and injuries."
Mitchell said she was sure Gipson didn't feel too good.
"It wasn't anything personal. We had to do what we had to do to protect ourselves," she said.
Court records indicate Gipson was convicted of armed robbery in Lincoln Parish in February 1999. He was sentenced to five years in prison with probation ending in March 2004, the records show.
In Shreveport, Gipson was charged with misdemeanor offenses of public drunkenness and disturbing the peace in November 2004, records show.
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It happened in Shreveport, LA. This is too good of a story!!
Armed robber gets extreme makeover
Group defends beauty school by attacking, holding suspect for police
June 15, 2005
By Francis McCabe
It was a beauty school knock-out.
An armed robber brandishing a revolver and some tough talk entered Blalock's Beauty College demanding money Tuesday afternoon.
He left crying, bleeding and under arrest, after Dianne Mitchell, her students and employees attacked the suspect, beating him into submission.
Mitchell tripped the robber as he tried to leave and cried aloud "get that sucker" as the group of about 20, nearly all women, some wielding curling irons, bludgeoned him until police arrived.
"You can tell the world don't mess with the women here," said the 53-year-old who manages the Shreveport beauty school in the 5400 block of Mansfield Road.
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."
About 3 p.m., the workers and students sat around the beauty salon, recounting their tale, like warriors after a great battle.
A little before noon the students and workers were cleaning up when the robber walked up quietly behind Mitchell and said, "This is a holdup," she recalled.
"I thought it was someone just playing, but then I saw that big old gun. He said 'get down big momma.'"
The robber, a tall, thin man wearing a handkerchief over his face and a skull cap, barked out orders to the other people in the school to get down on the floor, Mitchell said.
As the group complied, some of the women began to cry. The robber didn't react kindly, telling one of the women she would "be the first to go," Mitchell said.
After collecting any money the people had on them, the robber pushed one of the employees, Abram Bishop, into the back of the room.
"I thought 'Oh my God, he's going to shoot him,'" Mitchell said.
But instead the robber ran toward the front door to escape.
That's when Mitchell raised her leg.
It was enough to trip the robber, who dropped the gun and tumbled into a wall.
Bishop jumped on the man's back, driving him into the ground. Seizing the opportunity, Mitchell rallied her students.
"We moved some furniture after that," she yelped with joy as she retold the tale.
Arming themselves with curling irons, chairs, a wooden table leg and clenched fists, the women attacked.
Blood and urine splattered from the victim; stains adorned the white paints worn by many of the beauty school students.
Crying in pain, the robber tried to crawl away from the students, Mitchell said.
"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."
Sharon Blalock, owner of the school, said she couldn't be prouder of her students and employees. "They just whooped the hell out of him."
Sgt. Kevin Crow, head of the Shreveport police armed robbery unit, said he was happy no one was hurt but was quick to point out that not all of these situations end well.
"Legally you can always defend yourself if you feel threatened," Crow said. "But is this the best idea? No.
"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 there was no remorse from the students.
"He got what he deserved," Renae Collier, 26, said. Collier's engagement ring was broken at some point during the melee.
"I'm just relieved he didn't get away," student Gladys Woods, 24, said. "He probably would have come back if we didn't stop him."
Police are continuing their investigation into the incident, suggesting it might lead to more charges against Gipson. "He will be looked at as a suspect in other robberies in the area," Detective J.E. Cromer said.
The Family Dollar in the 2600 block of Hollywood Avenue and a Chevron gas station at the corner of Hollywood and Hearne Avenue are two other businesses in the area that have been robbed recently.
Early Tuesday, before the robbery, Mitchell had gathered her students and told them they needed to watch out for one another.
"It's like we were saying in class, we have to stay together as a team," Mitchell said. "You can tell any prospective students, Blalock's Beauty College has got your back."
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050615/NEWS03/506150321&SearchID=73211657980849
Armed robber gets extreme makeover
Group defends beauty school by attacking, holding suspect for police
June 15, 2005
By Francis McCabe
It was a beauty school knock-out.
An armed robber brandishing a revolver and some tough talk entered Blalock's Beauty College demanding money Tuesday afternoon.
He left crying, bleeding and under arrest, after Dianne Mitchell, her students and employees attacked the suspect, beating him into submission.
Mitchell tripped the robber as he tried to leave and cried aloud "get that sucker" as the group of about 20, nearly all women, some wielding curling irons, bludgeoned him until police arrived.
"You can tell the world don't mess with the women here," said the 53-year-old who manages the Shreveport beauty school in the 5400 block of Mansfield Road.
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."
About 3 p.m., the workers and students sat around the beauty salon, recounting their tale, like warriors after a great battle.
A little before noon the students and workers were cleaning up when the robber walked up quietly behind Mitchell and said, "This is a holdup," she recalled.
"I thought it was someone just playing, but then I saw that big old gun. He said 'get down big momma.'"
The robber, a tall, thin man wearing a handkerchief over his face and a skull cap, barked out orders to the other people in the school to get down on the floor, Mitchell said.
As the group complied, some of the women began to cry. The robber didn't react kindly, telling one of the women she would "be the first to go," Mitchell said.
After collecting any money the people had on them, the robber pushed one of the employees, Abram Bishop, into the back of the room.
"I thought 'Oh my God, he's going to shoot him,'" Mitchell said.
But instead the robber ran toward the front door to escape.
That's when Mitchell raised her leg.
It was enough to trip the robber, who dropped the gun and tumbled into a wall.
Bishop jumped on the man's back, driving him into the ground. Seizing the opportunity, Mitchell rallied her students.
"We moved some furniture after that," she yelped with joy as she retold the tale.
Arming themselves with curling irons, chairs, a wooden table leg and clenched fists, the women attacked.
Blood and urine splattered from the victim; stains adorned the white paints worn by many of the beauty school students.
Crying in pain, the robber tried to crawl away from the students, Mitchell said.
"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."
Sharon Blalock, owner of the school, said she couldn't be prouder of her students and employees. "They just whooped the hell out of him."
Sgt. Kevin Crow, head of the Shreveport police armed robbery unit, said he was happy no one was hurt but was quick to point out that not all of these situations end well.
"Legally you can always defend yourself if you feel threatened," Crow said. "But is this the best idea? No.
"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 there was no remorse from the students.
"He got what he deserved," Renae Collier, 26, said. Collier's engagement ring was broken at some point during the melee.
"I'm just relieved he didn't get away," student Gladys Woods, 24, said. "He probably would have come back if we didn't stop him."
Police are continuing their investigation into the incident, suggesting it might lead to more charges against Gipson. "He will be looked at as a suspect in other robberies in the area," Detective J.E. Cromer said.
The Family Dollar in the 2600 block of Hollywood Avenue and a Chevron gas station at the corner of Hollywood and Hearne Avenue are two other businesses in the area that have been robbed recently.
Early Tuesday, before the robbery, Mitchell had gathered her students and told them they needed to watch out for one another.
"It's like we were saying in class, we have to stay together as a team," Mitchell said. "You can tell any prospective students, Blalock's Beauty College has got your back."
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050615/NEWS03/506150321&SearchID=73211657980849
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LaPlaceFF wrote:... treatment of "multiple knots
Knots - I love it!
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