or as a natural or probable consequence thereof.’ ” Poag, 159 N.C. App. at 320, 583 S.E.2d at 667 (citation omitted). Pursuant to the acting in concert doctrine, there was sufficient evidence presented at trial to find that defendant acted with premeditation and deliberation. The evidence in the record shows that defendant and Sterling planned the robbery of the Mini Mart. Prior to the robbery, defendant and Sterling circled the Mini Mart, sent “Noodles” inside to scout out the place, and purchased gloves to use. Furthermore, Sterling armed himself with a nine-millimeter handgun, and shot Tam Nguyen at least twice during the course of the robbery. This was sufficient evidence to show premeditation and deliberation. See State v. Welch, 316 N.C. 578, 590, 342 S.E.2d 789, 796 (1986) (<HOLDING>), cert. denied, 1998 N.C. LEXIS 515; State v.
holding that escape driver with no prior knowledge that robbery would be armed is aider and abettor of aimed bank robbery if he knowingly and willfully joins in the escape phase of an armed bank robbery knowing that an accomplice has a gun holding that armed robbery suspect was entitled to bail hearing even though armed robbery was considered capital offense under mississippi law because maximum sentence was life imprisonment holding that a robbery defendant was not entitled to a compulsion instruction in the absence of a claim that he or the victim was the target of a specific threat forcing the defendant to participate in the robbery holding that there was sufficient evidence of premeditation and deliberation when the defendant previously planned to commit the robbery armed himself with a shotgun and shot the victim during the robbery holding that a conviction for florida armed robbery is a crime of violence under the armed career criminal act