'Something Had to Be Done': Barber, Customer Defend Shop from Armed Robbers
(FOX NEWS INSIDER) - An armed robbery suspect is now dead after storming into a South Carolina barber shop to demand money, police say.
That man reportedly burst into the shop with another gunman on Friday night, forcing people at Next Up Barber and Beauty in Columbia to throw their hands up.
Reports say there were several customers inside at the time, including children.
That was when employee Elmurray Bookman and his customer leapt into action.
They distracted the suspects, saying that there was money on one of the chairs, and then shot them both.
One suspect was taken to hospital and later pronounced dead.