Tourist shot in the leg during robbery attempt in Orlando
By Associated Press
Published January 14, 2005
ORLANDO - A Scottish tourist was shot in the leg early Thursday during a robbery attempt outside his hotel along the city's major tourist corridor.
Thomas Quay, 50, of Biggar, Scotland, had returned to his hotel in a car with Annette Wilkins when two men in another car called him over. When he approached the car, a passenger displayed a gun and demanded money, according to a police report.
Quay grabbed the gun and struggled with the robber. Wilkins ran over and began striking the robber in the hand with car keys, the report said. Quay and Wilkins then tried to escape up a nearby stairwell as the two men chased them. One shot Quay in the upper right leg, and the assailants fled, police said.
Quay was treated at a hospital for his wound, which was not life-threatening.
