Beer bottle-wielding man foils truck-stop robbery
VIDEO - A Good Samaritan is recovering from gunshot wounds after using two bottles of beer to take on an armed robbery...
A Good Samaritan is recovering from gunshot wounds after using two bottles of beer to take on an armed robber.
“I’m telling your right now if it wasn’t for him she probably wouldn’t be here today,” said Mr. Fuel General Manager Gary Poland.
At 9:33 Saturday night the gunman entered the Mr. Fuel in Caroline, Ohio.
He grabs a pack of crackers and heads to a register.
“He puts the dollar on the counter with the crackers and then, boom he’s pulling out the gun,” said Poland.
The clerk can’t get the register to open, upsetting the gunman.
The manager hits the panic button.
What happens next shocks everyone.
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A customer, believed to be in his sixties, makes a split second decision to help.
He grabs two bottles of beer and smashes one over the back of the robber’s head.
The customer falls to the floor as gun shots ring out.
The Good Samaritan is hit four times.
The robber bolts as the man stumbles to his feet.
“I think it was very brave of the customer, first doing what he did, and a Good Samaritan doing that for us. If it wasn’t for him I think something terrible could have happened,” said Poland.
Sheriff’s deputies showed up just minutes later.
There were several other customers and employees in the store, but no one else was hurt.
The Good Samaritan is recovering at home.
The robber left behind a pair of prescription eye glasses.
Police believe he may try to seek medical treatment for his head wound.
