More Self-Defense Fireworks In The Gunshine State...

UPDATE

OAKLAND PARK, FLORIDA - A Hurricane Katrina refugee who relocated his family and his urban clothing store here was involved in another traumatic event Monday night. He shot and killed a would-be armed robber, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Store owner George P. Azar, 25, of Sunrise, was not injured in the attempted hold-up at O.G.'s Corner Urban Ware, 2192 W. Oakland Park Blvd., said his wife, Dana Kennedy. Officials said it was too early to tell whether Azar, who opened the business in October 2005, would be charged in the death.

There were no customers inside the store when the shooting took place, and investigators were trying to find possible witnesses who were in the area when it happened, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal.

Officials did not immediately release the name of the person who was killed but did say that he apparently had walked into the store with a teenage boy, whom deputies were still searching for late Monday. The Sheriff's Office did not release a detailed description of that teenager, who they said also was armed.

Details of the shooting were still unclear late Monday.

Deputies responding to a silent holdup alarm at the business about 7:30 p.m. reached the store in the Buglewood Plaza to find one of the suspected robbers dead on the store floor, Leljedal said.

The Sheriff's Office brought its 40-foot mobile crime lab to the scene so that investigators could immediately begin collecting and analyzing forensic evidence. The SWAT team showed up to aid in the search for the teenage suspect, and K-9s sniffed around the shopping center for clues. Meanwhile, a Sheriff's Office helicopter, with its beaming search light, circled the area.

More than a dozen people who were doing laundry at the laundromat next door to O.G.'s were forced to stick around until investigators interviewed them, officials said.

If investigators determine that Azar acted in self-defense, the shooting Monday would become the fifth such case in the county this year."

And the hits just keep on comin'. Sooner or later, criminals are going to catch on to the fact that Florida isn't the easy pickins it once was, and up and move to somewhere safe for them like California, or NY, or Detroit, or D.C. Areas that have long since seceded from the Union and where all free men are now engaged in a modern civil war.

Puzzles me that law enforcement appears to be changing their tune with regards to calling this a good shoot, hence the update, but perhaps its nothing more than dotting the i's and crossing the t's.