Off-duty police officer shoots 2 robbers at ATM

Updated: Monday, 06 Sep 2010, 1:20 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 06 Sep 2010, 1:20 PM EDT

MIAMI (AP) - Turns out the person three men tried to rob at a cash machine is a Miami-Dade police officer.

Police say the off-duty officer was withdrawing money from the ATM early Monday morning when he said three men pulled up in a truck, blocking the officer's car.

The men attacked the unidentified officer, who pulled out his gun and shot two of them. The would-be robbers are in stable condition in a hospital. The officer was not injured.

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