Starbucks workers bravely fight off robbers before they were fired for stopping duo, new video shows
Two Starbucks employees fought off a pair of armed robbers in a “life or death situation” at their crime-plagued store before they were fired, newly released video captured.The chaotic moment broke out when two hooded men entered the Starbucks location near the campus of St.Louis University in Midtown in December 2023, according to video obtained by Fox 2 News on Thursday.One of the would-be robbers aimed a gun at the employees behind the counter, as the 10 workers and one customer inside hit the ground, complying with the orders of the armed men.One of the robbers rushed the cash register, shoving a female worker out of the way.Employee Michael Harris, who was manning the drive-thru, approached the register and began touching the screen as a menacing robber stood next to him.“I was scared but also calm at the moment because I was just like whatever we could do to just get them out of here would be perfect,” Harris told the outlet.Harris was trying to open the register, but didn’t have managerial access to the cash, when one of the robbers pistol-whipped him in the back of the head.“After that point, like when my vision went black, I was like ‘I’m about to get shot.'” Harris said.
“It was definitely a life or death situation in my eyes,” Harris said.A second male employee, Devin Jones-Ransom, saw the robber lower his gun and jumped at the armed trespasser, running him into the window of the drive-thru.The gun broke on impact as Jones-Ransom realized the weapon was fake.Harris then launched his own counter-attack against the robbers.“The trigger broke off when they hit him with it,” Harris said.
“My coworker announced that it was a fake gun like right as he got it off of him and thats when we jumped and started to fight them a little more.”Overhead security cameras captured the two employees pummeling the robbers in the dining area of the shop.The two robbers, later identified as Joshua Noe and Marquis Porter-Doyle, were overpowered by...