After a robbery at a small town grocery store, a group of concerned citizens helped catch the armed suspect, handing him over to police.
For 60-year-old Ken Lowery, the commotion began as he stepped inside Aden's Convenience Store and encountered the store clerk in distress.
"The lady screamed at me and said ‘I've been robbed. He's got a gun, and I gave him all the money,’" Lowery said.
Lowery said he saw the suspected gunman, identified as 24-year-old Damien Durham of Wilcox County, walking down the street making what he described as a nonchalant getaway.
Witnesses said it was a bizarre sight, but what happened next was even more unbelievable.
"People just kept coming around, and they were mad,” Lowery said.
More than 20 people, many of them armed, spread out in trucks and on foot to look for the suspect, Lowery said.
"We didn't have no leader of it all, we just went all our separate ways. And the people in Rhine they knew they are going to get that rascal," he said.
Lowery ended up tracking the suspect down roughly 200 yards away from the store.
He fired a warning shot from his deer rifle and said the suspect stashed his gun and money and hid in a nearby shed, where he was arrested by deputies.
Maj. Donald Helms said it's just a story of good guys with guns, and people in a small town exercising their right to bear arms.
"You might not want to come down there and mess with the Rhine folks," Helms said.
While at least one longtime Rhine resident said a stick up downtown isn't the most uncommon thing, everyone was proud of their town for coming together.
"I'm glad I stay in a town like this. Rhine is a good town," said one person.
The suspect was charged with armed robbery, and other charges are pending.