Two Men Walk Into Convenience Store, Shoot Clerk in Arm — but Victim Isn't About to Let Them Get Away With It

A convenience store clerk decided he wasn't going to let a pair of armed men get away with anything after they entered Sunny's Quik Stop and Taqueria in San Jose last week — not even after he was shot.

Image source: KGO-TV

Felipa Flores, one of the clerk's coworkers, told KGO-TV she was in the store when the incident occurred just before 10 p.m. Tuesday.

The clerk was face to face with the men, and even after being shot in the arm, he was able to chase them out of the store with a baseball bat, the station said — and while the pair got away, they left empty-handed.

The clerk is resting at home, and his coworkers told KGO that he's expected to make a full recovery from his injury.

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"I was really scared," one woman told the station about the incident. "I actually heard noises, and I kept peeking through the window because I was hearing noises that didn't sound right."

A neighbor who didn't want to give her name or have her face on camera told KGO that it was the second time in the last four months that the convenience store's been robbed at gunpoint.

"It's not a settling feeling knowing that when we're at home watching TV, this stuff is going on just very close to us," she told the station.

Daisy Guerra, who lives across the street from the scene of the crime, was unhappy to learn that the clerk was hurt in the incident.

"He's always there to talk to you, and he never seems to be upset or angry," she told KGO, "he's just always very happy, so it's kind of sad that it happened to him."

San Jose police haven't yet released the suspects' descriptions, the station said.