"Apparently, there was a customer in the store and they tried to cuff them and the customer fought back, and I guess that was enough time for him to get his gun," said local business owner Lisa James from her auto repair shop across the street.
A man and a woman ran from the store and down the town’s historic Main Street, but not before the owner had fired two shots putting a bullet in the female suspect’s back.
A short time later, paramedics from the Parkton Fire Station would respond to a 911 call from the Exxon gas station in Hereford where police believe the man and a woman who may have been driving the getaway car abandoned their alleged accomplice.
"There was a woman there who appeared to have some type of injuries,” said Baltimore County Police Cpl. Mike Hill, “When police and the fire department responded there, she did have a gunshot wound."
Paramedics transported the unidentified suspect to Sinai Hospital where doctors are treating her gunshot wound and she’s expected to survive.
Meanwhile, many local business owners in Shrewsbury are applauding the jewelry store owner for being able to look down the barrel of a gun and to answer it with a gun of his own.
"Anything goes at that point I guess," said James.
Outside Alexander’s, police found where the robbers had dropped enough plastic flex cuffs to restrain everyone who had been inside.
