Pharmacist murdered execution-style by oxycodone addict

[charmacist]

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http://www.wbir.com/news/article/275470/2/Victims-in-pharmacy-shooting-were-shot-execution-style

The pharmacist didn't resist and complied with all the demands made by the robber. Despite that, though, the robber still had everyone kneel down facing a wall, then he began walking down the line, shooting everyone (starting with the pharmacist first) in the back of the head, execution-style. Fortunately, after the first two murders, a female tech decided to rush him, and she got shot in the face as a result, but she saved her own life and that of a co-worker.

Keep that in mind the next time a pharmacy chain says you should just go to work unarmed and, if robbed, just hand the drugs over without resisting. Also keep it in mind in situations like when Walgreens fired Jeremy Hoven for saving his own life.

 

[pharmd201389]

I don't know what you are trying to say here. Do you want pharmacists to be armed?

Personally, I think it would be freaking amazing if we were allowed to be armed, but never in a TRILLION years will that happen.

So again, I really don't know what you're trying to say. Yeah, this was a goddamn tragedy, but it has nothing to do with Walgreens or arming of pharmacists. It has to do with our nations never ending opoid problem.

 

[npage148]

Ah. The south

 

[bobanderson214]

Ah. The south

No different than the northeast, bud.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/19/pharmacy-shooting-4-killed_n_880118.html

 

[npage148]

Long Island is a "special" place so it doesn't count

 

[owlegrad]

Tragic, and not appropriate to try and make a political point or degrade a geographical region. 🙁

 

[eagles22]

And how many times has just letting the person take the drugs and leave resulted in 0 deaths? I'm pretty sure the odds are going to say if you comply you're more likely to not get shot. This is just tragic as several people are dead due to the actions of a very sick person.

 

[Pharmavixen]

I worked in a pharmacy that was held up at gunpoint 3 times in 6 months. Generally, it's safer to just hand the drugs over without a fight rather than try and Chuck Norris yourself out of it.

That said, I knew a pharmacist who was held up so many times he kept his opioids in a fishing tackle box in order to just hand the drugs over with a minimum of fuss. But he was eventually shot by an unusually twitchy biker. He was not seriously hurt (grazed in the leg), but he quit retail and spent the last 20 years of his career in hospital.

 

[radio frequency]

I wonder what percent of retail pharmacists have experienced a holdup? It seems it must be pretty high; I always hear stories.

Such a sad example here.

 

[Momus]

I wonder what percent of retail pharmacists have experienced a holdup? It seems it must be pretty high; I always hear stories.

Such a sad example here.

4 year and 8 mo here = 0 robberies :-D... my area is nice with 80k household income.

 

[rph3664]

Drugs are far more likely to be stolen by pharmacy staff than by a robber. And I've ALWAYS been told that if a robber comes in, just give them all the money, even when I had my first job, in a restaurant at age 14.

Never been robbed, anywhere.

Whoever did the murder in the OP would have done it no matter what kind of store they were at, whether it was a pharmacy, gas station, pizza place, etc.

 

[pezdispenser]

http://www.wbir.com/news/article/275470/2/Victims-in-pharmacy-shooting-were-shot-execution-style

The pharmacist didn't resist and complied with all the demands made by the robber. Despite that, though, the robber still had everyone kneel down facing a wall, then he began walking down the line, shooting everyone (starting with the pharmacist first) in the back of the head, execution-style. Fortunately, after the first two murders, a female tech decided to rush him, and she got shot in the face as a result, but she saved her own life and that of a co-worker.

Keep that in mind the next time a pharmacy chain says you should just go to work unarmed and, if robbed, just hand the drugs over without resisting. Also keep it in mind in situations like when Walgreens fired Jeremy Hoven for saving his own life.

"Down Home Pharmacy" and "The store's owner and pharmacist, Stephen Lovell was killed". Sounds like an independent. Chain policies have nothing to do with this tragedy.

 

[deleted480308]

In most states, even a chain policy doesn't make it illegal to carry. It just means that if you are caught you can fired.