A military veteran working behind the counter of a convenience store in San Francisco, California, shot and killed one of two men who attempted to rob the store.
Mark Kasprowicz was manning the cash register inside the store over the weekend when two armed, masked men walked into the establishment, according to NBC Bay Area.
Video of the incident shows one of the masked men, brandishing a semiautomatic weapon, jump behind the counter where Kasprowicz was working and beat him in the head with it. Bloodied and bruised, Kasprowicz struggled to gain control of a gun he had stashed behind the counter. After the suspect’s gun misfired, the attacker ran off. Footage shows Kasprowicz firing his weapon at the fleeing suspect, striking him once.
“I just looked around, and he was running, and just by instinct, I let go a shot,” Kasprowicz told the station after the incident.
In his own words: (surveillance video follows) Air Force Veteran Mark Kasprowicz tells @nbcbayarea how he he’s doing after he shot a robber in Bay Point overnight – leaving one suspect dead and another on the run. Live report at 11 and streaming at https://t.co/3w0gJl7DlU pic.twitter.com/ZxNLApjcr8
— Thom Jensen (@ThomJInTheBay) December 23, 2019
The injured suspect later died in the store’s parking lot, police said. The second suspect remains at large.
