Subway employee shoots suspect, police say

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — An alleged robber shot by a store employee has made it through surgery, and the Subway restaurant worker who shot him will likely not face charges.

"There's never, to me, any crime around here. I mean, it’s pretty safe," customer Deborah Owens told Channel 2’s Ross Cavitt.

Police say a robber holding a handgun went into the Subway on Baker Road in Acworth to grab some quick cash, but it changed when he went behind the counter.

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"An employee of Subway was able to retrieve a personal firearm and use it against the suspect, striking him once in the chest," Officer Mark Cheatham of the Acworth Police Department said.

Despite the serious gunshot wound, the man staggered outside the store and disappeared.

Acworth police weren't sure how the wounded man fled from the scene, but in Kennesaw, 911 calls started coming in from an urgent care facility after a white sedan pulled into the parking lot and dumped a man off with a gunshot wound in the chest.

"The suspect was next seen at the urgent care, so getting from the scene to urgent care is still under investigation," Cheatham said.

Witnesses said the white sedan sped off from the urgent care, but so far police have not ID'd an accomplice.

The armed Subway employee was questioned and released, and the store was back in business a few hours later.

Customers don't fault the employee.

"To protect himself, yes, I think so. Because you don't know if he would have shot him," Owens said.

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