WATCH: New surveillance video shows a shootout between two armed robbers and a worker who fired back after a dog temporarily distracted one of the suspects inside a Philly corner store. Steven_Fisher10 has the video and latest on the investigation:
A store clerk was shot at least four times during a robbery inside a Wissinoming neighborhood corner store early Tuesday, Philadelphia police said.No one has been charged as of Tuesday morning.
A worker and an armed robber were hurt in a shootout inside a Philadelphia corner store early Tuesday morning where the store manager's dog also intervened. The shootout took place shortly before 4 a.m. inside the corner smoke shop at Torresdale and Cheltenham avenues in the Wissinoming neighborhood, Philadelphia police said.
Police officers and medics arrived to find a 32-year-old woman bleeding from at least four gunshot wounds to her upper thigh and hip, police said. She was rushed to the hospital where she was listed in critical condition. She was later released from the hospital.The woman was working behind the counter at the store, sitting on a chair and speaking to the manager when two armed men burst in and announced a robbery, police said and video shows. The manager said the men said"don't move.
However, the manager's dog, named Bullet, jumped on the gunman, temporarily distracting him. The store employee then pulled out a gun and a shootout began between her and at least one of the would-be thieves.
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