Customer shoots suspect during restaurant robbery

Angela Johnson told multiple media outlets that shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday the armed suspect tried to rob the Waffle House. When officers arrived they found that the suspect had been shot by a customer during the robbery.

Kenneth Rivers, 39, of Desmond Avenue in North Charleston, was sitting outside the restaurant in his Ford Crown Victoria when he saw the restaurant being robbed and a few of the employees running out the front door, according to the report.

A preliminary investigation revealed that a customer shot the armed suspect.

The man, who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon, will not be charged for killing 19-year-old Joshua Davis, who wanted money from a Waffle House eatery in the city of North Charleston in South Carolina, The Post and Courier reported. “No one was hurt, which is the best part”, says a Waffle House division manager. Davis was rushed to the hospital, but ultimately died of his injuries. “No one was injured-besides the suspect”. One employee said, “He saved us, that’s what he did”.

Waffle House employees spent the morning sweeping shards of broken glass in the doorway, preparing for a noontime reopening.

In the face of public outcry over the treatment of the soldier and a gun policy that keeps law-abiding citizens defenseless in the face of danger, the Nicholasville Waffle House said, “For many years, we have had a “No Firearms” policy in place in our restaurants”.