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Shirley store owner's compassion for would-be robber

When a bat-wielding masked man walked into a Shirley convenience store and demanded cash, store owner Mohammad Sohail pulled out a rifle, ordered the man to get on the floor - and then, he says, found himself overcome with compassion. Sohail, moved by the would-be robber's tale that hard economic times had pushed him to the edge, gave the unidentified man $40 and a loaf of bread and asked him to...

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