Robber blows his balls off during botched heist

Police: Man Shot Himself In Genitals During Robbery:icon_hahano:
January 16th, 2008

KOKOMO, Ind. -- Police said a Kokomo man accidentally shot himself in the genitals as he robbed a convenience store early Tuesday.

Kokomo police said they were called to a Village Pantry store at 100 N. Ohio St. at about 4:20 a.m. after a clerk at the store called them.

The female clerk told police that a man came into the store with a semiautomatic handgun, grabbed her hair and demanded cash and cigarettes before handing her a white cloth bag.

The clerk said that as she retrieved the cigarettes she heard a gunshot and turned to confront the man, who yelled that he had shot himself.

"The bullet traveled through his right testicle ... and then into the bottom part of his leg," Kokomo police Lt. Don Whitehead said.

Police said the man, whom they identified as 25-year-old Derrick Kosch, grabbed the bag full of cash and fled the store.

In-store surveillance cameras showed that Kosch shot himself as he placed the gun into the waistband of his pants, police said.

Shortly after the robbery, dispatchers got a call from someone in a home -- located several blocks away from the store -- about a man who was shot.

When officers arrived, they found Kosch. The home is his grandmother's, police said.

"He said he had been shot (and) someone was trying to rob him," said the grandmother, whom 6News didn't name. "In the meantime, I found out that he was trying to rob somebody else."

Kosch was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Officers said that while at the home they found the bag of money that was taken from the convenience store and clothes seen on the robber in the surveillance tape.

Police said Kosch was arrested on robbery and criminal recklessness charges. Police said they were looking for the gun.


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This guy claims he did not rob the store. Yet, he had the same white bag and the surveillance video clearly shows him doing the robbery on the TV news. Kokomo, Indiana is where my Dad lives. It is depressing to go there because of all of the closings due to the automotive & manufacturing jobs that have left the city. No wonder this guy robbed the Village Pantry. But, he shot a testicle off in the process. That's what we call thinning the herd. Truth being he probably will not procreate. Thanks God for small miracles.

How exactly DO you tell your grandmother (of all people) that's you just blasted your nuts off? He just lost all of his street cred in Kokomo.

And Jan I hear you about the automotive / manufacturing jobs leaving the Kokomo area. This part of Indiana's neighbor state Michigan (where I now reside) is hurting big time from GM recording a billion dollar loss(!) last year. They've thrown a hell of a lot of people out of work. When I moved to Michigan that's all I heard about: no jobs. It was like people were hypnotized to sing that sad song. Whenever I'm at the local Bar & Grill that's all I hear people talking about. It's a chorus of woe.

Everybody is so desparate to pay the bills they'll do just about anything for a paycheck around here these days. Some people take it a step further and just steal. Yeah, the decline of the American auto industry is no joke. Except when it relates to gunning yourself in the nards.

hahaha serves him right

The only thing that would make this better is taping his head with duck tape to conceal his identity. (Anyone remember the ducktape bandit?)

First, WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP DOING THIS?! After hearing the FIRST story of a guy blowing his nuts off by putting a gun in his waistband, why don't you just spend the extra couple bucks and get a holster and/or put it in SOME OTHER PART OF YOUR WAISTBAND?! Keep guns the hell away from the jewels, damn morons.
Second, I personally support at least one guy in Michigan by constantly paying for replacement parts on my Chevy which I have beaten to shit at this point.

I agree Max. Even casual fans of action movies (much less self-anointed street thugs) should be aware that the proper movie gangster thing to do in a situation like that is to place your illegal firearm in your waistband at the small of your BACK, not front. Why? Because you've got important stuff below the your waistband in the front AND (according to the movies I've seen for instance the gangster portion of "Malcolm X") your killa steel is less conspicuous there and can even be missed while being frisked.

Hey, I saw it in the movies! Remember "Snatch"? When Turkish (Jason Statham) sees the huge revolver in his partner Tommy's front waistband he is startled and quickly asks,"What's to keep it from blowing your bollocks off?" Good question. Answer - nothing. But in the movie Tommy had no ball-blasting problems because the gun wouldn't fire, period. This bandit in Kokomo, however, had the right gun in the wrong place at a very painful time. Apparently he doesn't watch movies much.

well said NJo....