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Police: 2 shot in drug buy that turns into a robbery

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PHOENIX (CBS5) -

Two suspected drug dealers were wounded after a man, who wanted purchase drugs, fired at them when they robbed him and a woman.

Phoenix police said a 25-year-old man and 19-year-old woman thought they were meeting the drug sellers near Washington and 48th Streets about 9 p.m. Sunday.

Instead, when the two men the met, one 27 and the other 21 years old, pulled guns and robbed them.

Police said the 25-year-old robbery victim then pulled a handgun, fired and hit both men as they fled.

The two suspected drug sellers-robbers were later apprehended, and their injuries were not life-threatening, police said.

No other information was immediately available.

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