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Police identify robber killed in St. Petersburg holdup turned shootout

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By Ileana Morales and Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office
Police found 29-year-old Robert lee Dawson’s body in the doorway of the 16th Street Game Room on Tuesday, fatally shot in the upper body.

ST. PETERSBURG — Police have identified two men who burst into a St. Petersburg game parlor wielding guns Tuesday night and wound up in a shoot-out. One was killed by a patron, the other wounded.

At least one customer was also shot.

Two masked men had barely walked into the business when bullets began to fly. At least one customer and one of the robbers fired before Robert Lee Dawson was fatally shot, said police spokesman Mike Puetz.

Police Dawson, 29, dead in the doorway of the 16th Street Game Room, 1741 16th St. S. Dawson was wearing a mask and had been shot in the neck, police said.

Police identified the other ...


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