I was catching up on my News of the Weird reading, and found this rather relevant item from September:

"Kevin Ollie, 17, and Damien Cole, 19, completely failed in their attempted street robbery in Milwaukee, Wis., in August, when they accosted a young man and woman. The male "victim" drew his own gun, shot Ollie fatally and held Cole for the police. Later, Cole, though not the shooter, was charged with Ollie's death under the state's "felony murder" rule, which makes felons responsible if anyone at the scene should die as a result of the crime. Cole could get 55 years in prison. [WTMJ-TV (Milwaukee), 8-18-09]"


I wonder how the call might have gone:

"911, what is your emergency?"

"Send the cops! Two guys just tried to rob us and I shot one and have the other on the ground! And be sure you tell 'em the guy with the gun is the GOOD guy, okay?"