allows the perp slowly to back his way out of the store. >> he never turned away from me. he kept facing me until he got out the door, and then he high tailed it off to the right side of the building. so everybody was lucky that night. he was lucky he didn't get shot. i was lucky i didn't have to pull the trigger. >> alexander immediately calls for help. in hindsight, alexander worries what might have happened had someone else been working that night. >> i think if it had been somebody else that he would have got what he wanted and the other clerk may have been killed or may not have been hurt, but i would almost say that -- he would have been hurt. >> alexander remains thankful he exercised restraint. >> i prevented a person from losing his life. >> crisis averted by a store clerk standing his ground in marionville, missouri, without firing a single shot. three months later in seattle, what looks like another