MS - Business Owner Shoots Axe-Wielding Thief

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A suspected auto parts thief was in the hospital Tuesday night, after being caught trespassing and shot by the property owner.

The shooting happened at M and B Auto Parts on Country Club Drive. The owner, Masoud Bayati, said he's constantly having problems with people sneaking onto his lot, and taking car parts

Tuesday afternoon, Bayati was walking through his lot when he found a man sitting inside one of his trucks armed with an axe. When he told the man he was calling police, and he needed to leave, the man charged at him.

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