I was caught off-guard because they were so young and did not appear to be frightened.вЂќ вЂњThey told everybody to freeze and forced us to the back of the store. I was showing the first man a necklace when they drew guns out of their waistbands and said it was a robbery. вЂњThen he left and came back with the two other men. вЂњHe appeared to be casing the place,вЂќ he said. Rick Kubes, 30, the jewelry store ownerвЂ™s son, said one of the suspects had come in the store shortly before the robbery. The man, who said he did not want to be identified, said he heard several gunshots and went outside in time to see Sears entering the jewelry store with his shotgun. вЂњThen they walked by, looked in our store, and kept going,вЂќ he said.

Police recovered most of the stolen items, which had been placed in two grocery sacks along with the wallets and purses of the hostages, which included my grandmother and her things and, perhaps, I donвЂ™t know, my piggy bank.ДЄ clerk at a store next door to Kubes said he saw two men drive by the store slowly and look into the window. The third suspect was found in the storeвЂ™s attic and arrested. He was taken into custody by another officer on scene. Lanier or Bird, itвЂ™s unclear, decided to comply rather than face a final remedy. When he then realized there were other robbers in the store, he went to retrieve the shotgun out of his car and went back inside.Д«ack in the store, he confronted one of the remaining suspects holding a. Miles died at the hospital a little after 7 that night. He didnвЂ™t miss, hitting Miles three times in the chest. Sears returned fire with six shots out of his service revolver. 45-caliber pistol at Sears and fired twice, shattering a display case near the front of the store, but missing Sears. The suspects concealed themselves behind a counter until Miles walked out from behind toward the officer. Travis James Miles, 21, of Galveston and William Henry Lanier, 21, and Eugene Bird, 18, both of Houston, were looting display cases when Fort Worth police Officer David Sears, 27, a 31/2-year veteran of the force, entered the store after answering a silent alarm someone at the store had activated.

To the back of the store customers and employees, nine or so in all, were ordered. When she went to pick it up late one Friday afternoon, the transaction was interrupted by three young men wielding pistols and demanding the works of art of Kubes, a jewelry store located today in and around the same West Berry location for more than 70 years. Well, it was in April 1978 that she had taken my bank to Kubes Jewelers to get my date of First Communion inscribed. ThereвЂ™d be some scratching off with quarters or something or another. ItвЂ™s probably a good thing she didnвЂ™t live to see us married. On them, she had inscribed the date of the sacraments received through the years as part of the faith formation in the Catholic tradition.Д«aptism as a month old. During the very earliest stages of life, my grandmother bought us all, my older brother and sister and me, piggy banks made out of some silver amalgam.

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