Two hooded men entered a southern California liquor store with their faces partially covered Monday night in what police told the Whittier Daily News was an attempted robbery.
The clerk inside the Whittier store told police he saw at least one man armed with a handgun, police added to the paper.
Then the clerk pulled out his own handgun, the Daily News said.
“There was an exchange of gunfire,” Whittier police spokesman Officer John Scoggins told the paper, adding he doesn’t know if the suspects said anything before the shooting.
The clerk fatally shot one of the hooded men, the Daily News reported. He died in the store, Scoggins told the paper.
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