Unlucky? ...Or Just Plain Stupid?

It should have been a good week for Tony Hicks, his first days of freedom after a year in jail for assault, theft and burglary, but it wasn’t.

Sunday: The day after he got out, Hicks told police that a woman waiting for him outside his apartment hit him with a car, and he went to a hospital.

Monday: Hicks told police a man with a knife broke into his apartment, robbed him and hit him in the head with a coffee mug. He was taken to a hospital.

Tuesday: Hicks was in a hospital for a third straight day. This time it was for a gunshot wound, and he didn't have to tell police what happened -- they were the ones who shot him.

Cornered on Tuesday night in a dusty lot behind his apartment, Hicks told officers investigating a convenience store robbery that he had a gun and threatened to shoot, according to a police report. When he began a countdown, officers shot him in the lower torso.

Hicks turned out not to have a gun, but he did have a knife.

Hicks, 42, was held Thursday on $100,000 bail pending a hearing next week on charges of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated robbery.