Sleeping store owner awakened to noise, shoots suspected burglar

AKRON, Ohio - Akron police said a store owner shot a suspect as he tried to break into his shop overnight.

The owner of Pioneer Market on Pioneer Street said he was sleeping in the store at about 3 a.m. when he heard a knock at the front door and then the opening of a rear door.

Police said the owner confronted the suspects with a shotgun and fired a shot.

Several minutes later, officers received a call from Akron General Medical Center about a patient with a gunshot wound to the left arm. Johnny R. Rollyson, 19, of Beardsley Street in Akron, was identified as one of the suspects involved in the burglary at the market.

Rollyson had been charged with burglary.

The second person has not been identified. The case is still under investigation.