Grandfather shoots robber: Suspect fired shots in jewelry store, took necklace from child

The Chicago Tribune reports:

A robber fired two shots inside the small jewelry shop in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood as he threatened Georgi Layous and frightened Layous' wife and two grandchildren, even snatching a necklace and a purse from the 4-year-old granddaughter.

Before leaving, the robber turned his back and tried to get surveillance video from a computer. The 66-year-old Layous, paralyzed on his right side from a stroke years ago, said he saw his chance.

He told his wife in Arabic, "Give me the gun." As his grandchildren cried on a couch behind him, Layous said, he took the .380-caliber pistol in his left hand and shot the robber in the leg.

Georgi Layous is a hero!