The Herald-Examiner, Los Angeles, CA, 10/27/81

Monday, February 1, 1982

Charles Holcomb, 73, thought his Stanton, Calif., gun shop "was coming in around my head" when two men crashed a pickup truck through the front of the store and started loading up on pistols. Holcomb, who is partially blind and deaf, opened up with a shotgun, killing one criminal and putting his confederate to flight.

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