Convenience store worker uses gun to disarm man threatening to kill someone deputies say

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. (WPTV) - A convenience store employee took matters into her own hands when an armed man entered the store and ordered people out at gunpoint.

The incident happened in Indian River County.

Video shows the woman push the suspect out of the store after reaching into her purse and pulling out her own gun.

That armed suspect is identified as Calvert Allen.

The employee pointed a gun right at Allen’s face, and deputies say she began wrestling him for his gun in the parking lot

Investigators say the woman fired two warning shots at him, then hit Allen with her gun until she finally was able to get control of his handgun, which she turned over to a responding deputy.

Allen is a frequent customer whom the worker knows.

“He’s going through a mental health crisis; he just got out of the behavioral health center,” the employee said.

She told deputies in an interview that he contemplated shooting her in what he believed would have been self-defense, but she says he decided against it due to liking her.

WPTV spoke with the worker in the video.

She did not want to go on camera, saying she wants to put the incident behind her, but told said she still has her concealed carry at all times.