By SAEED AHMED Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer

The message might not have sunk in the first time J.C. Adams killed a man who tried to rob his convenience store.

The 74-year-old store owner hopes it will this time:

"Go to work and make your own money. Quit trying to take mine."

In a virtual repeat of a scenario played out less than three years ago, Adams shot and killed an armed man Thursday night who allegedly tried to hold up the store Adams has owned for a quarter century.

Police said a second accomplice was wounded in the holdup at the Pac-A-Sac store on Lawrenceville Highway.

A female accomplice escaped injuries and was taken into custody.

The suspects were shot while inside the store, police said. They fled and collapsed on the street outside.

Adams, who has owned the small grocery store just inside I-285 for 26 years, said he was in a rear office watching television when he saw the robbers on his store monitor about 10:45 p.m.

The Korean War veteran grabbed his 12-gauge shotgun with one hand. Using his other to guide his walker, he walked to the front of the store and fired a single shot.

"I got two in one shot, that's what the police told me," Adams said. more

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2003

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you go ADAMS!!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2003

give the man a medal!

now, let's all think good thoughts so that the authorities don't start thinking about charging him, and the perps don't consider suing.

Remember, dead perps can't sue.

I think Adams should consider suing the parents of the perps for not raising them to be respectable members of society.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2003