Take no prisoners

Our neighborhood is a bit "take no prisoners" [see article below].

Maddie has a doc's appt. today to look at her scar on her back, so I'm taking some "sick" time...

The girls have the day off school for some reason.

[edit 4/3/07: Link broke, so here's the full text:

How a robbery went fatally wrong
When gun-toting man looked away, jeweler made his move


By Vic Ryckaert
vic.ryckaert@indystar.com
Roscoe Parmley knew he wouldn't have much time to act as he looked down the barrel of a gun in the hand of the masked man trying to rob his Eastside jewelry store.




Nicholas Artry at his arrest.

"I just knew he was going to do something," Parmley, 76, said. "I saw my opportunity, and I took it."
The face-off at Rosco Jewelry ended Wednesday with the robbery suspect dead and his brother, arrested as his suspected accomplice, facing the potential of murder charges.
Rosco Jewelry, 5416 E. Washington St., has been a fixture in the Irvington area for 34 years. Parmley started out dealing in rare coins, then expanded into gold and other jewelry. He also sells firearms.
"Everybody in the neighborhood knows they are armed," Indianapolis Police Detective Marcus Kennedy said.
The suspects apparently knew it, too.
Corey Artry, 18, and his brother Nicholas Artry, 20, cased the store days before the botched robbery, police said, and saw the warnings inside -- shelves of firearms, a shotgun openly displayed and a sign that reads "We Don't Call 911."
Undeterred, the suspects went into the store armed with a .22-caliber handgun and a knife, according to police and witness accounts.
The Artrys, however, quickly found themselves outgunned, police said.
The incident began about 10:40 a.m., when the suspects entered the store wearing masks and demanding cash, according to police.
Parmley said he had just sat down in a back room to eat breakfast when he heard the commotion and found himself staring at the armed man who had jumped over his counter.
The suspect took turns pointing the small pistol at Parmley, Parmley's wife, Hwa-Lan, 65, and store employee Michael Ross, 53. The man's partner jumped another counter, police said, and held a knife to the throat of jeweler Garry Brown, 49.
The men wanted money and demanded access to the safe.
In those panic-filled seconds, Hwa-Lan Parmley blurted out that she recognized the men as customers she had seen in the store two days before. At that moment, Roscoe Parmley, a retired Air Force veteran, said he felt the situation was going to end badly.
The suspect would likely perceive the burly Ross as the biggest threat, Parmley figured, so he waited until the gunman focused his aim in that direction.
Parmely then reached into his front pocket for his .38-caliber handgun and fired, striking the suspect five times.
Hit, Corey Artry stood for a few heartbeats, Parmley said, then wobbled toward the door. He turned and raised his hand, the one holding the pistol, Parmley said.
Ross then fired one shot from a .44-caliber handgun. The suspect collapsed.
The round had pierced the man's body, put a bullet hole in the glass entry door and left a quarter-inch-deep impression in the fender of a car parked across the street.
In a phone interview Friday from the Marion County Jail, the gunman's alleged accomplice said he felt sheer terror.
"After the gunshots stopped, I heard them say, 'I have his partner here dead,' " Nicholas Artry said. "I was basically scared."
Artry was being held on initial charges of robbery and felony murder. Though he was not armed with a gun, Artry could be tried on a murder charge in his brother's death because he was allegedly involved in a crime that led to a death.
He said his brother was determined to rob the store, and he went inside only because he wanted to keep his brother from being harmed. He said he was wearing a hat, not a mask, because he was chilly.
In the interview, he admitted carrying a knife but said he pulled it out of his pocket only because it accidentally opened and he wanted to close it.
As the shots rang out, Nicholas Artry said, he and the jeweler ducked for cover behind a counter. When the shooting stopped, he ran into a back room and found no way out. He climbed above the ceiling tiles and crawled around until police arrived.
"I knew they shot my brother, and I thought they were gonna shoot me," Artry said. "I had a better chance with the police."


Call Star reporter Vic Ryckaert at (317) 444-2761.]