Pizza shop employee shoots would-be robber

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Philadelphia pizza store worker changeable an equipped robbery fishy who had conscionable targeted a adjacent pharmacy minutes earlier, constabulary say.

Police accidental the bid of incidents unfolded astir 9:30 p.m. Thursday erstwhile 3 men robbed the CVS pharmacy astatine North Broad and Spring Garden successful the Spring Garden conception of the city.

Moments later, constabulary accidental astatine slightest 1 of those men went a artifact distant to rob the pizza store astatine 15th and Spring Garden.

However, erstwhile inside, an worker of the pizza store changeable the would-be robber successful the face.

Officers responded to that shooting and accidental determination was intelligibly a robbery.

"There was wealth connected the level and determination was besides immoderate breached solid wrong the store, and determination was besides a ample magnitude of blood," said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.

Investigators accidental they followed a way of humor down the stairs of a SEPTA subway presumption astatine Broad and Spring Garden.

Police accidental that's wherever they recovered the 33-year-old antheral suspect.

"From pursuing the way of blood, we besides recovered immoderate currency successful the subway wherever the unfortunate was found," Small said.

The fishy was rushed to an country infirmary wherever helium was placed successful captious condition.

According to police, surveillance video from the pharmacy matched the statement of the injured suspect.

The antheral has not been identified. No different injuries were reported.