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Part paraphrase, part cut and paste from the Miami Herald.com article:

Police identify robber, customer in deadly Burger King shooting
The good guy in this was John Landers, 45. The bad guy was Johnny Jean-Baptiste, 18.
The robber came in wearing a ski mask and pointed his tiny Bryco .380 <what the hell kind
of a Saturday night special is that?> at the employees.
That's when Landers, armed with a concealed weapons permit and his 9mm Glock 19, asked Jean-Baptiste to put the gun down, according to the police report.
Jean-Baptiste refused and began firing his gun and Landers shot back, police reported.

Jean-Baptiste fell to the floor and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Landers, who was shot several times, was in serious but stable condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center.

After the shootings, police divided witnesses into several groups outside the restaurant to gather information about the incident. Employees waiting to start their shift called friends and family members on their cellphones to pass the time because they were not allowed through the police tape.

''I just hope all my people are OK inside,'' Cynthia Thomas, who has worked at the Burger King for five years, said at the time. ``It is scary.''

The area is a prime destination for residents in the Upper East Side neighborhood -- featuring Soyka's restaurant, Sushi Siam and Andiamo Pizza.

The gun used by the robber was on the list of top 10 guns used in crimes in the U.S. in 2000, according TIME magazine, which published a study by U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Miami Herald staff writer Robert Samuels contributed to this story.
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Well, Monday morning quarterbacking is great. Landers tried to cut the robber some slack instead of just shooting him, but sometimes things just
don't work out as we'd like.

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