'At night I would keep my hand on my pistol in my pocket in case I have to pull it out,' he said. 'It finally came to reality that I had to use it.'
Henry Joel talked to us from his hospital room on Saturday night.
"At night I would keep my hand on my pistol in my pocket in case I have to pull it out," he said. "It finally came to reality that I had to use it." The confrontation happened as Joel was walking home from a Chinese takeout around 11:15 p.m. Thursday. He was approached by two men on the 2400 block of N. 10th Street. The pair tried to rob him, but Joel fought back.
"They raised a gun to begin shooting. I raised mine and we just started shooting," Joel said. "I don't know if I hit one of them, but I'm pretty sure I hurt them because they were in the area I was at, basically, and I got shot in the bottom part of the leg which broke my bone."
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