Circle K Employee Suspended After Shooting Robbery Suspect: “I was sick and tired of being a sitting duck.”

By Brandon Curtis

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO — Jennifer Wertz was a Circle K employee who was seeing multiple robberies in the area over the past few weeks. Being proactive, Wertz brought her gun to work so that she had a fighting chance if she were ever robbed.

It’s a good thing she did, because robbed she was.

Local news reports;

In front of the Circle K near Eubank and Candelaria, Wertz said on Tuesday that she didn’t hesitate to shoot a man who ran into the store on Monday. “He like stepped into the door and pointed the gun at me. I reacted,” she said. Police say she hit 23-year-old Ferron Mendez in the chest. He’s expected to live.

Wertz says she had the gun at work clearly visible on her hip because it’s become a dangerous place to be. “Robberies have been going on like this for the past few weeks. They have done nothing to protect me. And I felt the need to protect myself,” Wertz said.

She says Circle K suspended her for two weeks for shooting the suspect. She’s quitting and now looking for a new job. Wertz doesn’t like company policy in these types of situations.

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Source:: Concealed Nation