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Nov. 17, 2010 — St. Petersburg

Members of a specialized crime unit were conducting surveillance of a shopping plaza on Ninth Avenue N in an area where several businesses had been robbed.

A Subaru wagon pulled up in front of the Dollar General store with a female driver and two male passengers. Isah Chisom, 20, and Nathaniel Barnes, 32, got out of the car and pulled bandanas over their faces. Chisom was armed with a handgun.

Detectives confronted the two when they came out. The driver, Danielle Johns, 20, sped away. Isah Chisom was wounded in the leg when he pointed his handgun at Det. Michael Bizzell, who fired twice. Barnes was not armed and was arrested. Johns was captured nearby. Read more

Chisom was later convicted of armed robbery and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.

This was the 96th police shooting in Florida in 2010.

Seven days earlier, one officer shot one person in Orange Park .

Four days later, two officers shot one person in Orlando .

3 ways this case compares to others

  1. Chisom was armed with a firearm. That’s true of almost half the people shot.
  2. Chisom was suspected of being involved in an armed robbery. That's true in 1 of every 9 police .
  3. Chisom pointed a weapon at officers. Twenty-eight percent of shootings involved people who police say pointed a weapon at them.

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