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[Vahunter]

Would-be robber dies of gunshot wound from his own gun

BY STAN FINGER
The Wichita Eagle

WICHITA - A 25-year-old man has died from the wound he suffered when he was beating on the window of a car with a handgun during an attempted robbery in west Wichita late Friday night and the gun went off and shot him in the head, police said.

Paul Broyer of Wichita, who was pronounced dead at 3:31 a.m. Sunday at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus, was one of three men engaged in a series of attempted robberies when he chased a woman to her car and tried to rob her, Police Chief Norman Williams said.

The 20-year-old woman was able to get into her car at 2020 W. Second St. and lock it, he said. Broyer began beating on a car window with what she thought was a pipe, but in fact was a long-barreled handgun.

The gun went off, gravely wounding Broyer. His two accomplices loaded Broyer into the back of a white station wagon and sped away as officers responding to the scene arrived at 11:50 p.m.

Aware that a violent crime had just occurred there and believing the men in the station wagon were involved, the officers began a pursuit, Williams said.

The chase went on for nearly 15 minutes, through portions of west and northwest Wichita, before the suspects raced south on Broadway at speeds of up to 70 miles an hour and lost control of their car as they turned west on the Kellogg frontage road and crashed at Market.

Officers took two men, ages 30 and 27, into custody at the scene and discovered Broyer underneath clothing in the back of the station wagon as they began to process the vehicle for evidence, Williams said.

An investigation showed the men attempted to rob two men on the front porch of a house in the 100 block of North Meridian shortly before the woman was chased, Williams said.
But the men saw the suspects coming with weapons and fled before they could be robbed, he said.

All three suspects were parolees who appear to have met at a halfway house, Williams said.

[OakRidgeStars]

I see a new government-mandated warning label in the works for this one

[Bob]

I love it when that happens, I hope he didn't have time to breed.

[alby]

"All three suspects were parolees"

This is the reason that parole should be abolished and that criminals should serve the full length
of their sentence. If the judge says 20/yrs, see you in 20yrs. Not 5 yrs.

[Moccasin]

I think all criminals should be as smart as that guy. Less of a strain on the courts and prisons that way.

[Vahunter]

I'd be willing to bet the scums family tries to sue the woman for his death. If she had rolled down the window and let him rob/rape her he wouldn't have been beating on the window. Iv'e seen stranger things happen.