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ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- When two men walked into a popular country store outside Atlanta, announced a holdup and fired a shot, owners Bobby and Gloria Doster never hesitated. The Dosters won't be charg ed, according to local officials, because they were acting in self-defen se. "I was trying to blow his brains out is what I was trying to do." Shoats Grocery & Package near Crawford, 70 miles east of Atlanta, is a we ll-known spot where locals stop for breakfast biscuits or lunch. Gloria Doster said the two men who came there Monday had something else in mind . She was rearranging boxes of soda by the store's front door when a man we aring a wig walked inside, the fake hair draped in front of his face. Then she noticed a sec ond man behind him wearing a mask. One man grabbed Gloria Doster and pushed her toward the register. She sai d the other kept his gun on her 62-year-old husband, who also goes by th e name Shoats. She said she tried to open the register, but one of the men told her she wasn't moving fast enough and tried to shoot her husband. Gloria Doster then went for a 9 mm pistol she keeps n ear the register. Both suspects took cover behind the store's meat counter as the Dosters o pened fire. Gloria Doster said she doesn't know how many bullets were fi red, or how many times the suspects were hit. Police arrived about five minutes after receiving Gloria Doster's call; The bloodshed, nevertheless, startled Gloria Doster, who has been around guns all her life, and has used them for target shooting. "But I never f igured I'd have to use them on anybody," she said. She said the worst thing that's happened in the seven years the couple ha s owned the store was an after-hours break-in by teenagers three years a go.
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