Indianapolis, Indiana

From October 24, 2006 WTHR channel 13:

An employee whose store was being robbed Monday used his own weapon as the suspect escaped.

It happened early Monday morning at the Sunrise Café, 9767 E. 116th Street.

A worker at the Sunrise Café told police that he got to work at around 5:00 am. While picking up a box of trash left on the sidewalk, he was hit in the back of the head and knocked to the ground. While on the ground, he was kicked and then pulled to his feet.

A man showed the employee a handgun and demanded money from the business, then forced the employee inside and took money from the cash register. After the robbery, the suspect told the worker to run towards the Kroger store.

Instead, the employee ran behind a dumpster and pulled out a .45 caliber handgun from his pocket. When the suspect stopped to look at the employee, he pointed his handgun at him. The victim employee fired 8 or 9 rounds at the suspect.

The suspect did not fire back and was last seen running southwest from the business. Witnesses in the neighborhood reported hearing the gunshots, seeing a man running and hearing a car speed off. The victim employee was not seriously injured and returned to work. Investigators recovered eight shell casings and did not locate anything that was struck by the bullets. The employee does not face criminal charges at this time.