Video: Clerk Grabs Gun, Fights and Shoots

Gun Watch ^ | 3 March, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

This video shows a brave young clerk fighting off two robbers that are masked when they enter the store.  It happened on Friday, 27 February, 2015,  in a tobacco store in Lexington, Kentucky.   As one robber is trying to grab cash from the register, he puts down a small handgun.  While I can not clearly identify it, it looks similar to a RG-14.   The clerk, 21-year-old Ara Adil, grabs the pistol, and one robber runs off.  Then the remaining suspect attacks the clerk.  As they wrestle, she shoots him in the shoulder.

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The robber does not give up.   At one point he agrees to leave, but then attempts to grab the cash on the way out.   The clerk is having none of it.  She tackles him, and he ends up leaving the store empty handed.  The clerk still has possession of the pistol at the end of the video.

The robber is very lucky that he did not end up dead.  A clerk with a little more training would have kept shooting.

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[marktwain]

The video has been linked to before on freerepublic, in a different article.

[moovova]

Tough, brave woman.

[Pollster1]

The clerk still has possession of the pistol at the end of the video.

Good thing this is in Kentucky. In NJ, Governor Christie would have had the clerk prosecuted for a violent firearms felony.

[Berosus]

I live on the east side of Lexington, about seven miles from that store. It’s in the city’s worst neighborhood, a few blocks north of Transylvania University. You can drive through but I don’t recommend stopping for anything besides traffic.

[petercooper]

God Bless this girl.