Todd Starnes By
A Las Vegas vape store owner said he was scared for his life when he stabbed a masked man who tried to rob his store.
Video, which you can watch below, shows one of the two robbers jumping over the counter to confront Johnny Nguyen inside the Smokestrom Smoke Shop.
“I was scared for my life,” Nguyen told The New York Post on Friday. “When they came in, one of them had a bag in front of him like he had a firearm or something. I didn’t have much time to think. I grabbed my knife right next to the register.”
The store owner tried to de-escalate the situation, but the robbers persisted.
“I asked them first nicely to leave but the guy took my tip jar, which was fine,” Nguyen said. “When they came back and tried to take some more, that’s when it escalated.”
