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On May 11 at about l0 p.m. in East Oakland, California, 17-year-old Tommy Ray Spencer and 23-year-old Juan Gonzalez entered a liquor store to rob it. They ordered the store manager to the floor, and Spencer threatened a clerk at the store's counter with a pistol. Then, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Spencer shot at the clerk twice, and so the clerk pulled a gun that was on hand because the store had been robbed twice in the previous six months and shot back, wounding Spencer.
The two robbers fled. The Oakland Tribune described what happened next: "Spencer was wounded before he and Gonzalez ran from the store empty-handed to where they had parked their getaway car a short distance away. Spencer collapsed on the pavement near the car. ...