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Lackluster advice.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Theresa Gesell of Oklahoma City captures the robber who robbed her 83-year-old mother)(Brief Article)
Ignoring a police dispatcher's advice that she not get her gun and pursue a man who had just robbed her 83-year-old mother, Theresa Gesell of Oklahoma City managed to capture the robber.
The robber, Roger Campbell, apparently followed Theresa's mother, Barbara, home from the grocery store on February 15; he then followed her into her garage and yanked her purse away from her. Theresa, who was at home at the time, began chasing Campbell, dialing 911 as she ran. A neighbor named "Hershall" noticed the incident and joined Theresa. At that point Theresa told the dispatcher, "I am going to get my .45 ... you all are too slow," reported KOCO TV Channel 5.
The dispatcher urged Theresa not to get or use a gun, but Theresa got her gun, and while the dispatcher ...
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