| Store owner, 80, returns to work, gun at the ready, after shootout |
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 CRAWFORDSVILLE — The potato chip deliveryman saw the handgun sitting on the counter at The Neighborhood Store during his stop last week and raised his hands in mock surrender. "Don’t shoot me," he said, laughing at store owner Clarence Cochran.
The gun, a Taurus. 38 Special six-shooter, is the frequent butt of jokes at the tiny grocery on Green Avenue, near the railroad tracks at the southern end of this Crittenden County town. Friends tease the wiry, 150-pound Cochran that the pistol, with its 6-inch barrel, is almost as big as he is. Its loud report is the antithesis of Cochran’s soft, raspy voice.
Cochran, 80, keeps another handgun in his mobile home next door and a shotgun rests behind a shelf in the store. He takes a ribbing for his cache of weapons, Cochran’s family said, but one of them was a lifesaver when two men bent on robbery entered his store the night after Christmas last year. "
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