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WEBVTT (PKG) (Sgt. Anthony Murphy, Fayetteville Police)"I haven't seen many incidentslike that, I've seen it happenbefore but I haven't seen a lot of them." ALEXIS COX TOLD 40/29 NEWS HERFATHER WAS STANDING IN THEDRIVEWAY OF HIS HOME ON RIVER MEADOW DRIVE Friday afternoon,WHEN A MAN IN A MASK APPROACHED HIM AND FLASHED a GUN. COX SAID THE MAN DEMANDED MONEY FROM THE MOORES. "Him and his wife were forced toleave inside his vehicle."ONCE INSIDE THE CAR, THE SUSPECTTOLDTHE MOORES HE WOULD SHOOT THEMIF THEY TRIED TO LEAVE, SAIDCOX. THE DAUGHTER ADDED THAT HERFATHER hasan Arkansas GUN LICENSE, AND HADMOVED A GUN INTO HIS CAR very recently. THE SUSPECT HEARD MOORE GRAB HISGUN,AND BEGUN BITING HIM TO STOP HIMfromshooting. MOORE WAS ABLE TO MOVEHIS HANDS JUST ENOUGH TO SHOOT THESUSPECT, THEN THREW HIM ONTO THEBRIDGE WHERE THEY WERE. It's amove the couple's daughtercalled - movie- like. "And then the victims left thecrime scene to call 9-1-1." AND TONIGHT, ALL ARE HOME SAFE. JAMIE WEISS 40/29 NEWS.

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Jerry and Lou Moore are safe in their home on River Meadow Dr. after an incident that sounds like something out of the movies. Alexis Cox, Moore's daughter, spoke exclusively to 40/29 News about the incident."My dad was standing in the driveway when a man approached him," said Cox. "He was wearing a mask, so all you could see were his eyes."Cox explained that the suspect demanded large sums of money from Moore, forcing him inside his home at gunpoint. Once inside the home, the suspect took Lou Moore's arm, and dragged her into a car with her husband."He told my parents, if you flee, I will shoot you. If you crash on purpose, I will shoot you," said Cox. "Fortunately, my dad has a gun license and had just moved a gun into the car a few days earlier." That's when the story takes a turn. "The man was in the back seat of the car, my parents in front, when all of a sudden he starts screaming for his phone," Cox stated. During the commotion, Jerry Moore, reached for his gun."The man must have heard the safety click, because he lunged at my dad and started biting his arms as hard as he could," Cox exclaimed. "The man's hands were on my dad's, trying to get control of the gun. My dad was able to adjust his hands and shoot the man, then threw him out of the car."Sgt. Anthony Murphy with the Fayetteville police department said that's when they got the call of a shooting. "The victims left the scene and called 9-1-1," said Murphy. Cox added that her parents were going straight to urgent care to treat Jerry's bite wounds. Fayetteville police have not released the identity of the suspect at this time, but told 40/29 News he is in serious condition at the hospital. No arrests have been made at this time, and the investigation is still on going.