OKLAHOMA CITY (May 29) - Confronted by two holdup men, pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a ***, shot one of them in the head and chased the other away. Then, in a scene recorded by the drugstore's security camera, he went behind the counter, got another ***, and pumped five more bullets into the wounded teenager as he lay on the floor.
Now Ersland has been charged with first-degree ****** in a case that has stirred a furious debate over vigilante justice and self-defense and turned the pharmacist into something of a folk hero.
