At the Rite Aid store on Alhambra Boulevard, where a robbery suspect was shot Wednesday night, employee Robert Ochoa, behind doors, tells Milton Anmuyden on Thursday that the store was temporarily closed. Anne Chadwick Williams/awilliams@sacbee.com

'Pure heroism' – cop fires shot, saves hostage

The young Sacramento cops charged through the drugstore's front door and into chaos. Customers were screaming, baskets and boxes of medicine littered the aisles and a pharmacist lay on the ground, bleeding....(more)