Awarded Cop shot holdup suspect during rescue
Published: August 19, 2005
An Indianapolis police patrolman shot an armed robbery suspect during the rescue of a clerk who was held hostage, authorities said Thursday.
Just after 11 p.m. Wednesday, police responding to a silent holdup alarm at Keystone Video & Newsstand, 4501 N. Keystone Ave., found the clerk held at gunpoint by Antonio D. Edmonds, 22, Indianapolis, police said.
Edmonds was shot during the struggle and was listed in critical condition at Wishard Memorial Hospital.
A police report described the following events:
The masked robber flashed a handgun as he entered the business and ordered the three employees in the store to the ground, witnesses told police.
Then he made a clerk, identified as Marvin Wheeling, get up to get cash from the register. After Wheeling gave the bandit $120 — plus his wallet — the robber forced him to a back room to get a surveillance recording.
The robber put the videocassette in his pocket and moved toward the exit.
That’s when IPD Officer Jamal Abdullah confronted him. Precise details of what took place weren’t immediately released because the shooting is under review.
“Witnesses said Officer Abdullah ordered Antonio to drop his weapon several times,” said IPD Lt. Lloyd Crowe, a department spokesman. “Antonio refused to do so. Officer Abdullah made apprehension, which resulted in a police-action shooting.”
When Edmonds is released from the hospital, he will be held on preliminary charges of robbery and criminal confinement.
Detectives are investigating. Employees of the store declined to speak about the incident.
Abdullah, 43, has received more than a dozen commendations in his 17-year career, according to his personnel file.
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