Bad guy with gun stopped by Vietnam Vet Marine with a cane

Retired Marine foils robbery with cane
Miami Herald
BY MARIA PEREZ
December 28, 2013

When two men tried to rob Windell Haynes at gunpoint on the porch of his Liberty City home on Saturday, the 60-year-old Vietnam veteran fought back with a cane.

In the ensuing confusion, one of the attackers apparently shot the other, sending the wounded man to Jackson Memorial Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The second robber ran away.

The Haynes family and a neighbor were having lunch on the porch of his home in the 900 block of Northwest 47th Terrace in Liberty City when two men approached from the back yard and one of them pointed a gun at the Marine Corps veteran.

According to a woman who identified herself as Haynes’ sister, the other man tried to snatch a chain from around the veteran’s neck. Haynes responded by hitting the man with a cane.

That's when the man with the gun accidentally shot his accomplice in the stomach, according to Haynes’ sister .

Catherine Loud, Haynes’ neighbor could only see a man in a gray hoodie running away when he heard the gunshot and came to see what had happened. The injured man lay on the ground.

"He was shot. He didn’t move," said Loud, adding that the wounded man looked to be about 18 years old.
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