VIDEO: Store Owner Fights Back During Armed Robbery

HOUSTON, TX (KRIV) - A Texas business owner found himself in a dangerous situation when an armed robber pointed a gun at his head.

The crime happened at 9:44 Friday morning at the Auto Insurance on Tidwell Road. In a fight or flight moment, the store owner, who only wants to be identified as Enrique, decided to fight.

Surveillance video shows the gunman entering the business and demanding cash from the register.

In a spur of the moment decision, the owner tries to wrestle the gun away from the armed robber.
Within moments of a gunshot goes off and the store owner is punched as he tries to reason with gunman for his life.
"For a moment, for a moment I wasn't scarent until you get close to me and I see the gun," Enrique, the store owner told KRIV. "And we were wrestling for a while and I started talking to him about God and things that he needs to change and begging him for my life. I was telling him I have kids. I love my kids."

Eventually Enrique gets the gun and the suspect runs out with Enrique close behind. At one point, video shows Enrique shoot the getaway truck's window out.

"Laying down on the floor… the cops taking pictures of me showing them to my wife my kids. I don't want to die like that. I know one day I'm going to die but I don't want to die like that."

The gunman was the passenger in the getaway vehicle which appear to be a silver Toyota Sequoia. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers.