MEMPHIS, TN -- Police are investigating a shooting and a stabbing with unusual circumstances. Police say the crooks were the ones hurt while trying to rob the victims.
One of those cases where the robber was hurt instead of the victim, happened in the 1300 block of Sandbrook, Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at the Americas Best Value Inn & Suites Motel in Whitehaven.
Police say the victim, a man, was entering his motel room, when two other men approached him. Investigators say they pushed the victim into his room threatening him with a knife. They tried to rob him, but at some point police say the victim was able to wrestle the knife away from the two robbers. According to police the victim stabbed one of them in the hand in self-defense.
The robber he stabbed was taken to the MED in non-critical condition. Police say that robber was cross dressing as a woman at the time of the attack.
During a different robbery, another man who police say was robbing a victim in the 1400 block of Court Avenue was hurt. This happened around 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
Police say the victim was walking down the street, when four men jumped out of a car to rob him. Police say the crooks shot the victim, but in turn somehow one of them was shot as well. According to investigators, the robber that was shot is in critical condition. Police are still trying to figure out if he was shot accidentally by one of his friends or in self-defense by the victim.
The victim is in non-critical condition with a gunshot wound.
