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Browse all e-mail newsletters Related To Story Rosa Jones says a retired Marine shouldn't have shot her grandson while they attempted to rob a Subway sandwich shop. Rosa Jones says a retired Marine shouldn't have shot her grandson while they attempted to rob a Subway sandwich shop. Former Marine's Actions Called Into Question Family Of Subway Robbery Suspect Says Customer Shouldn't Have Pulled Trigger POSTED: 10:30 am EDT June 29, 2007 PLANTATION, Fla. Donicio Arrindell Donicio Arrindell According to Plantation police, two armed men barged into the Subway at 1949 Pine Island Road shortly after 11 pm Wednesday, demanding money from the employee behind the counter. When they tried to force John Lovell into the bathroom, he pulled out a gun and shot both men, police said. Donicio Arrindell, 22, was shot in the head and later died at the hospital. Fredrick Gadson, 21, was shot in the chest and ran from the Subway, but police found him in hiding in some bushes on the property of a nearby BankAtlantic.
Gadson's grandparents told Local 10 on Thursday that Lovell was wrong for pulling the trigger. "He should not have taken the law in his hands," said Rosa Jones, Gadson's grandmother. Her husband, Ivory Jones, also condemned the media for its portrayal of Lovell's actions. "I don't condone what they did, (but) I definitely don't condone the news people making him out to seem like they're making a hero out of this man because he shot somebody down," he said. "I mean, I was glad that it was them that got shot and not him." Police said Lovell, a retired Marine, wouldn't be charged.
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