Video: Armed thugs who rush into jewelry store have fast change of heart when worker with gun sends them some smoke

A pair of armed, masked men caught on surveillance video rushing into a jewelry store in Oakland, California, on Monday morning quickly changed their minds when a store worker pulled out his own gun and began firing.

What are the details?

The failed caper took place at MSM Jewelry near 41st Avenue and International Boulevard in the city's Fruitvale neighborhood around 10 a.m., KTVU-TV reported.

The worker, who didn't want to be identified, told the station he saw a Toyota Camry pull up on the wrong side of the street outside his shop: "I saw two guys creeping up really quick, so I was like, 'It's a robbery.'"

KTVU said the two men came inside the store with guns drawn — but the worker told the station he fired first, using his 9mm handgun.

"They told me, 'Don't move, or we'll shoot.' So I started shooting at them because they had the guns pointed at me," the worker recalled to the station. "They were shooting back. It was going back and forth for like 20 seconds."

Image source: YouTube screenshot

The worker told KTVU the would-be robbers fired about 20 shots at him. One of them used a .40-caliber handgun with a drum magazine, while the other used a 9mm with an extended magazine — both of which are illegal, the station said.

"And then I ducked ... and then I waited to see him like scrambling. The other guy was still shooting. And then I popped my head out and shot about seven more," the worker added to KTVU.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

One of the crooks left a shoe behind in his haste to escape the worker's gunfire — but the worker told the station he may have shot that robber in the shoulder.

What's more, KTVU said that same crook got hit by the driver of his getaway car.

'I have more'

Police took a report, and officers did not cite or arrest the worker, the station reported.

"They said, ‘You did the right thing.’ They said, ‘You followed — you did everything right,'" the worker recounted to KTVU, adding that police took his guns until the completion of their investigation.

The worker then gave the station a priceless add-on regarding the guns at his disposal: "I have more."

In addition, he gave the robbers a message through KTVU: "If you come back again, try to do the same thing, we're just going to defend ourselves. At this point, you have to."

Oakland jewelry store clerk gets in shootout with would-be robbersyoutu.be

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