Posted September 22, 2017 10:00 am by Comments

By Jennifer Cruz

Jennifer Wertz said she’d rather find another job than work for a company who fails to protect their employees. (Photo: Tucson News Now)
A woman who shot an armed robber while working at a Circle K in Albuquerque on Monday has been suspended over the shooting, but she says she’s fed up with company’s lack of concern for employee safety and decided to quit.
“Robberies have been going on like this for the past few weeks. They have done nothing to protect me,” Jennifer Wertz told Tucson News Now the day after the robbery.
Wertz said she felt the need to protect herself, knowing that she was working a late-night shift and that another nearby convenience store had recently been robbed. So, Wertz carried a gun to work on Monday, and a few hours into her shift, she was standing near the door when a man entered the store with a gun. She said the man put the gun in her face, and she “reacted.”
“I grabbed my gun from my pocket, I cocked it, and I shot,” Wertz said.
The shot struck the suspect in the chest, and once officers responded to the robbery call, he was transported to the hospital for treatment.

Source: Guns.com

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