Pharmacist dispenses lead
02.27.04Kingsport Times-News, Kingsport, TN, 01/20/03
State: Tennessee
American Rifleman Issue: April, 2003
A masked man armed with knives approached a pharmacist and demanded narcotics, but the pharmacist dispensed lead instead. The suspect entered Marcum’s Pharmacy in Kingsport, Tenn., at 2:10 p.m. and approached pharmacy owner Carl Marcum, demanding the narcotic drugs OxyContin and Percocet. Marcum pulled his .38-cal. handgun and shot the suspect, who fled out the back door and drove off in a Buick. Police notified local hospitals to be on the lookout for a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Two hours later the suspect, Jeffery Jessee, was arrested at a local hospital, where he was treated and released. Jessee was charged with aggravated robbery.
