HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Police arrested two men on robbery charges Sunday after the owner of a coin operated laundry in Five Points fired several gunshots at an armed robber who was trying to rob him.

Roger Dewayne Broyles, 25, and Matthew Porter, 21, were each charged with robbery after the early-morning incident at Five Points Laundromat, 815 Wellman Ave., a police report said.

The laundry owner, a 38-year-old man whose name was not released, told police that a man with a pistol entered the business at about 6 a.m. and attempted to rob the owner. The owner pulled a gun and opened fire on the would-be robber.

The offender left in a white Lincoln, which was stopped a short time later on Memorial Parkway near Hollow Road. The laundry owner identified Broyles as the man who tried to rob him, police said. Broyles was arrested and charged with robbery, police said. Porter, who was also in the car, was also arrested and charged with robbery, police said.

The department's Robbery Task Force is investigating.

In a separate robbery, police are investigating the Saturday night armed robbery of the Shell Food Mart, 1604 U.S. 72 East, according to a north precinct report.

The store clerk told police that a man entered the store about 11 p.m., pointed a gun at him and demanded money, the report said. The clerk opened the register and the robber took an undetermined amount of money. The robber left in an unknown direction. The store clerk was not injured and the investigation is continuing.