Three men tried to rob the Guns and Ammo Gunsmith in Belvedere early Thursday by crashing a van into the side, but the business owner shot them all and killed one of them, authorities said.
The robber who died is 20-year-old K’Raven Goodwin of Eastover, S.C. (left photo), while the two who survived with gunshot wounds are 27-year-old Frankin Robinson of Gadsden, S.C. (middle photo) and 30-year-old Eddie Stewart of Columbia, S.C. (right photo).
Aiken County Sheriff’s Office just sent out these photos in a press release with this headline: “Home owner/Business owner protects his property during burglary.”
According to sheriff’s Sgt. Jason Feemster, deputies responded to the business and talked to business owner Stephen Bayazes Jr., whose residence is in the rear of the business. Deputies also found a hole in the side of the building and a suspect with gunshot wounds.
“It has been determined through the investigation that S. Bayazes woke up by a loud crash. He went to investigate and found three males inside the store,” Sgt. Feemster said. “S. Bayazes advised that when the suspects noticed him a suspect made the comment, ‘kill that mother f**ker.”
Sgt. Feemster said the business owner then began shooting at the suspects, retreated to his apartment and then returned later to the front of the store as the suspect’s van was leaving with two of the robbers.
The other two suspects were located by North Augusta Police at the Waffle House after they had stopped there seeking medical attention for gunshot wounds they had suffered.
All three suspects were transported to an area hospital and were identified. K’Raven Goodwin died as a result of his wounds at the hospital. Both Eddie Stewart and Franklin Robinson remain at an area hospital.
Good job business owner
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Good job business owner.
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Just never know who is gonna be home.
About time somebody get one
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The family of this guy should be made to pay for the damages to the store. Before any money is spent on a funeral.
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no matter what someone has done no one deserves to die… just think about it life is too short to talk down on the next person never know what gods got in store for you. damaged property can be fixed not someones life. so think about what you say before u actually say it..
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Everyone is going to die. What? And some will never be rehabilitated. So, when a serial killer or anyone who means you harm approaches you to take your life, are you going to tell them that you don’t deserve to die? Not me. I will do all that I can to protect myself and my family.
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That is some great news !!! It always make me very happy when I hear good news like this. GREAT JOB !!! WE ALL NEED TO STOP THESE CROOKS DEAD IN THERE TRACKS !! LOL
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Three less Obama voters is always a good thing!
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and no matter what white people think about the black but one thing they fale to realize is your kids have to go to school with my black *** kids and get punished for their parents negative mouths… so **** you crackers OBOMA’s goinf to get the chair again.
First of all Cindy, Learn how to spell and use grammar correctly. Second of all, your ignorance of what happened that day is paramount. If there had not been 3 criminals shot that day then there would have been a hard working man and or his family shot or killed that day. Guns in the hands of responsible people is good. Guns in the hands of criminals is bad. Criminals will get the guns no matter what so it’s good to have armed citizens to protect your illiterate ***.
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**** you cracker and oboma still going to be in the seat *******
Cindy if they would not have gotten shot. They would have stole a bunch of guns that would be on the streets to kill other people. You never know whose hands those guns would’ve gotten into
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I wonder which genius master mind had the idea to rob a GUN STORE in the first place…..just another reason why gun bans are idiotic. Criminals would still have them, innocent business owners and families would not, 3-on-1 with or without guns in the hands of the criminals would have been the end of the business owner in this case except for the fact he was able to defend himself in a responsible manner. There is a reason homocides rise dramatically in every place they have enforced a gun ban.
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homocides, LOL!!!!!!!!!
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If this happened in Oklahoma City, the owner would be sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder, because he obviously built his shop to entice ******* to attack it so he could murder them when they come in to kill him, his employees and customers.
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The gun owner knows what it is like to come face to face with a gun while he was in the commission of a crime! His life was spared! Should it have been? If the story of the thief in this article would have ended the same way as it ended for the thief in today’s story; there would not have been a today’s story—-http://www.edgefielddaily.com/b092006.html Follow the link or google Stephen bayazes and you will see he is a thief as well!
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About the only thing ni&&ers won’t try to steal are soap, work boots and a job. Nice shooting store owner but you should have made all of the
welfare raised boons good.
Oh my gosh, I almost fell out of my chair…..lol
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Yeah,I read the article about Stephen Bayazes being a criminal.A pety criminal at that,seems like somewhere down the line he graduated and became a successful gun shop owner.They label the black man a crook but throughout the years theyve stole and stepped on any and everyone they could to get to the top.Anyway Cindy you were just as wrong as those 3 who broke into the crooked gun dealers shop for your use of racist slurs.And all of you are ignorant for following her up.And how does Barack Obama fit into all this mess? All and all the crooked gun dealer will get his judgement day as well as the 3 who broke into his gunshop.If all of you would pull your head out your ***** long enough.You would realize the meth labs you are running is no better than what the 3 broke into the gun shop are doing.All of you are dealing in death.It is so sad what this world is coming to.I am just so glad this ni&&a got me some soap,work boots,and a job.While you take pride in blowing up meth labs,build one big enough to blow up 421.And I am not a racist,some white people are nice and easy going people.And some are ni&&as themselves(ignorant).
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Amen.
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He is a national hero…..the only way we’re going to stop these worthless thugs
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Well **** I think they wernt thinking robbery of a gun shop really u always will get what u deserve
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