WITI

Robber beaten by customer with pickle jar at Milwaukee store now charged

Travanti Schmidt has a criminal record

3:35 PM CST, January 7, 2011

WITI-TV, MILWAUKEE

Travanti Schmidt is now charged in three counts of armed robbery and felon in possession of a firearm. Schmidt is the man who got beaten by a store customer with a pickle jar when he tried to rob the L&A Foods on Milwaukee's north side.

Police say Schmidt suspect entered L&A Foods near 26th and Vliet Tuesday afternoon and fired a shot from a gun. His intention was to rob the place.

However, customers in the store attacked the gunman. One of the customers struck the suspect in the head with a jar of pickles. They held the suspect until police arrived.

Schmidt is also charged with robberies that took place near 23rd and Wisconsin and 27th and Vliet.

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