A robber who tried to hold up a bingo hall called “It’s Your Lucky Day” is not alive to see the irony of his killing by a security guard.
William Cantrell Jr, 43, entered the charity bingo hall in Jasper, Alabama on Saturday night at around 11pm and fired a shotgun into the ceiling. He then shouted: “This is a robbery. Everybody get out of here.”
As Cantrell approached the cashiers’ cages, he fired more shots at the ceiling and then at a cashier’s cage and a safe.
Two security guards approached him and when he pointed his gun at them one of the security guards then shot the robber dead. Walker County Sheriff John Mark Tirey said the man had multiple bullet wounds.
One bingo player said: “It was very frightening and it is lucky no one was injured apart from the gunman. It really wasn’t his lucky day though, was it?”
The It’s Your Lucky Day Charity Bingo hall is at 20 Pineywoods Sipsey Road, Jasper, Alabama.
