my first reaction was to get up,' Miller recounted.

'Once I did hear the shot and heard the crack of bone. That's when the robber turned on him, firing one bullet into his upper leg. The robber headed toward the cash register - which Miller had locked when he went to stock shelves - and Miller followed close behind. 'So I swiped it away,' said Miller, a soft-spoken but scrappy man with kind eyes who walks with a cane now and wears a baseball cap bearing his name.Īrrest warrant issued in killing of city worker at Philly corner store He said he was stocking shelves when he looked up to find a handgun six inches from his face and a man with a cloth over his face and no intention of leaving empty-handed. When Livingood recognized him, calling him a hero, Miller's neighbors gave him a hearty round of applause.Īfter the meeting, Miller recounted the moments of terror he faced inside that 7-Eleven, where he worked for a decade. Miller was among about 50 concerned community members from North Hills, Ardsley and the surrounding areas who attended the meeting at the Edge Hill Fire Company to hear about an arrest made in the shooting and another recent robbery of the same store that police are investigating. But Miller lived to tell it, and found himself hailed a hero on Monday night at a community town hall meeting in North Hills, steps from the 7-Eleven, hosted by township Commissioner Steve Kalinoski, Abington Police Deputy Chief John Livingood and other local officials. The gunman shot Miller during the course of the robbery. Miller, 67, a longtime store clerk and a pillar of his Montgomery County neighborhood of North Hills, in Glenside, Abington Township, found himself face-to-face with a masked gunman who came in to rob the 7-Eleven on Limekiln Pike where he works about 1:35 a.m. He shared his story with NBC10 after the meeting.Ĭharlie Miller is keenly aware that a malfunctioning handgun was the only thing that stood between him and death in the wee hours of April 5. Neighbors hailed Miller a hero on Monday night at an Abington Township town hall meeting.Miller survived, and Abington Police identified and arrested the suspected shooter, whom they said is a serial robber named Lamar Sowell.

On April 5, a robber burst into the North Hills 7-Eleven where Charlie Miller, 67, worked for 10 years and shot Miller during a robbery.

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