Hollywood Hold-Up Gone Wrong

Homeless man thwarts robbery in Hollywood.

Hasib Kuric, a homeless immigrant from Bosnia, has a deal with the owner of the Exxon station on South State Road 7: Kuric can sleep in a U-Haul truck out back if he keeps watch over the place.

Just before midnight Monday, Kuric tried to do his part and alert the clerk about a pair of masked men he saw outside the store of the Hollywood gas station. But before he could tell the clerk to watch out, one of the would-be robbers began shooting at Kuric in the aisles of the store — and the clerk was firing back from behind the counter with his own gun.

The gunman was killed, shot in the face by clerk Leonard Carr. Kuric, miraculously, was unhurt.

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Kuric, 46, said he first noticed the two attackers when he was piling up branches by the side of the store. He asked what they were doing, and one man said he had to use the bathroom in the store. Suspicious, Kuric went into the store to try to warn Carr.

“I said ‘Lock the door, call the police, I think you are about to get robbed,’” Kuric recalled Tuesday afternoon.

But as Kuric entered the store, the two attackers followed right behind him. And then one of them started shooting at Kuric amid the soda and water bottles on the store shelves.

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