LOCAL : Santa Anan Shot Chasing Thieves
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Santa Ana police had no suspects this morning in the shooting of a man who tried to stop two youths stealing beer from a convenience store.
Paul Williams, 27, of Santa Ana suffered a bullet wound to the chest around 2 a.m. Sunday after he chased two youths from the AM-PM Mini Market at 34114 S. Main St. after they had darted out of the store with two 12-packs of beer without paying, police said.
Williams is in stable condition in the intensive-care unit at United Western Medical Center-Santa Ana, a nursing supervisor said.
The suspects escaped in a car with two others, leaving Williams wounded next to a gasoline pump, store clerk Tom Singer said this morning.
“He was in line and said, ‘I’ll get them,’ ” Singer said. “Next thing, he was shot.
“Here was a customer who helped, and he was shot. Doesn’t make a lot of sense, does it?”
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