An alleged would-be robber ended up at the wrong end of a gun when he tried to rob a wrestling coach. Fred Kemp, 63, and his wife had just finished dinner at a Boynton Beach, Florida, restaurant and were getting into their car when Richard Nowling stuck a gun in Fred Kemp’s face. Kemp, who is 5-foot-7-inches and weighs 150 pounds, instinctively pushed the gun away in Thursday’s incident, but Nowling allegedly started hitting him in the head with the weapon. That’s when Kemp went into action. Kemp said after grappling for a bit, he put Nowling in a “sleeper hold” and when Nowling’s oxygen started running out, his wife grabbed the gun. “He asked me to let him go when I had him down,” Kemp said. “I said, ‘No, I’m not going to do that.’” Nowling was charged with armed robbery and aggravated battery. Kemp coaches wrestling for the New York State Junior Olympic team and is a volunteer assistant wrestling coach at American University in Washington, D.C.
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