Two Connecticut man were arrested early this morning for shooting a man who refused to hand over his wallet while standing in line for a Playstation 3, state police there said.

William J. Robertson, 20, and Andrew Patnaude, 17, were arrested about 4 a.m. on several charges including attempted murder and robbery. He is being held in lieu of $1 million bond, the Associated Press reports.

Michael Penkala, 21, was shot by the two gunmen while waiting for the console outside Wal-Mart in Putnam on Nov. 17, launch day.

The two men had ordered everyone in line to throw their cash and possessions on the ground or put them in bags, but Penkala refused to give up his wallet, which was stuffed with more than $2,600 in cash.

Penkala told the Telegram & Gazette how it played out:

Mr. Penkala said that at 3:14 a.m., two masked men showing guns came around to the front of the building and approached several people in line.

"At that point, I knew what was going on — two kids with bandanas over their faces with guns," he said. "So I dialed 911 on my cellphone and dropped it into my pocket."

Before the two robbers confronted Mr. Penkala, they accosted two other individuals and ordered them to empty their pockets.

"They approached two kids first, and they got 75 cents out of them, and I was the third person they came to. And I wasn't giving it up for anything," Mr. Penkala said. "So they hit me with the butt of the gun in the face, kind of got me to the ground a little bit, continued to hit me and struggled for my wallet. And I just held on to that pocket and wallet for dear life."

Mr. Penkala had $2,600 in cash on him, $900 of which came from his grandmother. He was determined not to give it to the robbers at any cost. The first two individuals escaped unharmed, while Mr. Penkala was not as lucky.

"They emptied their pockets. They didn't have much, but they listened to them, I guess," Mr. Penkala surmised. "They wanted me to hand over whatever I had in my pockets and empty that out to the ground and into a bag. I wasn't going to have any part of that."Prior to being shot, Mr. Penkala, whose glasses were broken during the assault, suffered a black eye, a gash above and underneath his left eye (which needed two stitches combined to close) and impaired hearing in his left ear for several days. He was able to scare away the robbers, but not before one fired a shotgun in his direction, Mr. Penkala said.

"I started yelling at them, '...Get the hell out of here. I called 911!' Mr. Penkala recalled. "And they both ran and, after a couple steps, one of them turned around and fired a sawed-off shotgun at me and then just continued to run off into the woods."

Penkala was hit once in the chest with a shotgun blast from about ten feet away.

Despite the gunshot wound, which had him coughing up blood and feeling "lightheaded" he told the paper that his only concer was getting those Playstation 3s.

"When they let us in the lobby there at Wal-Mart, I was on the floor coughing up blood and telling the workers to take the wallet out of my pocket and give it to my friends so they could continue waiting in line and purchase the PS3s," Mr. Penkala said. "For some reason I wasn't thinking about my wound, I was all about those PlayStations."

Penkala, a PS3 scalper, said he doesn't regret refusing to give up his cash and getting shot in the chest. Things appear to have worked out for Penkala, who landed four, FOUR, Playstation 3s, three of which he purchased and one of which was handed to him by Wal-Mart for his troubles.

No comment. Brian Crecente

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