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Columbus Cops Kill Suspected Armed Robber

Columbus police say they killed an armed man wearing a hockey-type mask who tried to rob a restaurant and confronted responding officers on Saturday. 

Police on Monday identified the man as 34-year-old Joshua James Brown. Police say Brown hit a manager in the head with a gun. No customers or workers were at the eatery in the 14-hundred block of Olentangy River Road were injured.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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