Dalton Wheeler was in the middle of his pre-work routine Friday — buying a Red Bull from the Circle K on Cherry Road in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and catching up with the clerk, Miss Kathy, WBTV-TV said.
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“We crack jokes all the time,” Wheeler told the station. “Sweet lady.”
Wheeler said he was outside the store when he noticed a suspicious-looking man heading inside, WBTV said, citing Rock Hill police.
“I see the guy come around the corner in all black — black hoodie and a black face mask,” Wheeler recounted to WSOC-TV.
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That man, identified as 18-year-old Richard Stayberg, was at the register where the clerk was retrieving money to hand over to him, officers told WBTV.
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So Wheeler headed back inside the store. “I wasn’t fearful, I wasn’t scared — I was ready,” he told WBTV.
“I just walked up to him like I’m going to get behind him in line and buy what I’m going to buy, and then I just clothesline him,” Wheeler told WSOC. “I get him on the ground, and then I turn around and look at [the clerk] and I said, ‘Did I do the right thing?’ And she’s like ‘yes,’ and immediately emotions just dropped.”
Police added to WSOC that the suspect pulled a gun from his waistband, and…
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