COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A man is dead after the Days Inn clerk he tried
to rob early Monday morning fought back and killed him, deputies said.

Investigators say the robber entered the hotel at 133 Plumbers Rd.
near I-20 and North Main St. and put an unknown object to the clerk's
throat and said "this is a robbery."

Deputies said the female clerk shot the robber in the upper body and
when authorities arrived on the scene, he was unresponsive. The
coroner pronounced the suspect dead on the scene.

A spokesperson with the Richland County Sheriff's Department said the
clerk was taken to Palmetto Baptist Hospital for observation.
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This is gun control I believe in!

And yes, I boated over the weekend. Saw the Purple Martins come in to
Bomb Island last night.

"The first purple martin sanctuary in the United States.When birds are
roosting in the summer months, no one is allowed on the island. What
makes the Lake Murray roosting site so cool is that people can only
watch the birds departure and return by boat. When the birds leave in
the morning, it is like an explosion and the local weather radar has
said the image is larger than Hurricane Hugo was in 1989."

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