The former shift manager said she used a small pocket knife and her pepper spray to defend herself after being shoved: 'What was I supposed to do, let him hit me again, or defend myself?'
Then, she said, the man began “wrecking the store,” knocking displays off the front counter and throwing the cash register to the floor.At this point, Santiago pulled her small pocket knife and her pepper spray from her pocket. She lives in a room downtown, and she carried the knife and pepper spray for protection because she would walk to work before dawn and sometimes leave work after dark.
The man then left the store, she said, breaking the glass in two front windows with his skateboard from the sidewalk outside.The police arrived about 30 minutes after the man left and took a report, she said. Her son – one of her two grown children who live in town, the only family she has in York – came to her aid and, along with some of her co-workers, scoured downtown, looking for the man. They didn’t see him.
The HR person told her to take off Saturday and Sunday, with pay, and return after the Labor Day holiday.
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