DAN, HOW DID THIS ALL START?
DAN:rt IT STARTED WHEN THE STORE
OWNER SAYS THE GUY WENT INTO THE
STORE AND TRIED TO STEAL SOME
BEER.
HErt SAID HE FORCED THE GUY TO
GIVE BACK THE BEER AND THEN
FIRED A WARNING SHOT.
rt>> TRIED TO BEAT ME UP AND TOOK
MY BEER AND LEFT.
DAN: SOWANN SUY SAYS IF THE GUY
HAD POINTED A GUN AT HIM, HE
WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM.
BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE TO.
HE SAYS THE GUY STUFFED A CAN OF
rtBEER IN EACH POCKET THIS
MORNING, LEFT THE STORE, AND
SOWANN WAS RIGHT BEHIND HIM WITH
HIS GUN.
>> I TOLD HIM TO GIVE MY BEER
rtBACK AND HE IGNORED IT.
I POINTED A GUN AT HIM, AND HE
GAVE ME MY BEER BACK, AND I SHOT
ONE BULLET IN THE AIR.rt
>> COMING ACROSS THIS STREET, I
SAW THE GUY WALKING OUT OF THE
STORE.rt
SOWANN CAME OUT, SAID GIVE ME MY
BEER BACK, BECAUSE HE HAD IT IN
HIS POCKET.
DAN SOWANN SAYS THE GUY GAVE HIM
: BACK HIS BEER AND AFTER THE
WARNINrtG SHOT, WENT ACROSS THE
STREET TO A CEMETERY, WHERE
POLICE TOOK HIM IN FOR
QUESTIONING.
ALL THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.
IN FACT, SOWANN HAS SHOT DOWN AT
LEAST THREE PEOPLE WHO'VE TRIED
TO ROB HIM, AND EACH TIME POLICE
HAVE FOUND THE SHOOTINGrt
JUSTIFIED.
THE LAST GUY WHO TRIED IT, IN
2016, WAS NORRICK HYMAN, WHO'S
SERVING A 20-YEAR SENTENCE IN
ADDITION TO RECOVERING FROM 3
GUNSHOT WOUNDS.rt
SOWANN'S MANY FRIENDS, SOME OF
WHOM CALL HIM CLINT EASTWOOD,
ARE STAUNCH DEFENDERS.
>>rt SOWANN DOES NOT BOTHER
ANYONE.
HE'S A WONDERFUL FAMILY GUY.
AND WHY PEOPLE COME OVER HERE
DOING THIS TO HIM, I HAVE NO
CLUE.rt
DAN: THE GUY WHO GAVE BACK THE
BEER WAS NOT ARRESTED BECAUSE
THE OWNER SIGNEDrt A PROSECUTION
AFFIDAVIT, BUT HE, THE OWNER,
COULD BE CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED
ASSAULT AND THE STATE ATTORNEY
rtWILL MAKE THAT DECISION AND A
