guy anyway. but the video helped us tremendously. as for udon, he counts his blessings every day. despite the violent attack, he goes back to work at the convenience store, though his children wish he would quit. come on, please, don t go there. every day, can you quit the job? can you find another job? but udon says he won t leave any time soon. he s grateful to have this job, at least for now. i came back. owner, he trust me. different with the money, financial, and mental support. everything he gave me. being a victim of an armed robbery didn t deter udon from returning to his job and didn t deter store manager karen smith or jewelry store owner barry fixler, either. they all went back to their daily lives, knowing that when
back. i m in this community for 20 years and business for over 20 years. they know that i just came from a life and death situation. the retired marine starts by helping local war veterans, including sergeant eddie ryan who was wounded in the iraq war. sergeant ryan sustained a head injury in battle, and in learning of this, barry fixler donated the profits from his store following valentine s day to the family so they could make some repairs or changes to the house to so they could accommodate their son. sergeant eddie ryan s parents are grateful for the help that fixler has given them. i could never repay this guy for what he s done for us. he doesn t want payment. he just wants to do it for eddie. he says eddie did it for us, and i m doing it for eddie. fixler also writes a book about the robbery and his vietnam experience called semper cool and donates all royalties to wounded veterans through the barry fixler foundation.
alone, we may have caught this guy anyway. but the video helped us tremendously. as for udon, he counts his blessings every day. despite the violent attack, he goes back to work at the convenience store, though his children wish he would quit. come on, please, don t go there. every day, can you quit the job? can you find another job? but udon says he won t leave any time soon. he s grateful to have this job, at least for now. i came back. owner, he trust me. different with the money, financial, and mental support. everything he gave me. being a victim of an armed robbery didn t deter udon from returning to his job and didn t deter store manager karen smith or jewelry store owner barry fixler, either. they all went back to their daily lives, knowing that when
automatic pistol. the gunman demands money, but fixler has no intention of giving in to his threats. the robbers don t realize it yet, but the unassuming shop keeper is not as defenseless as he appears. my brain went into, this is the real deal. this is an automatic. do not like automatics and now i got to kill these guys. i pushed the weapon out of my face, i bolted about eight, ten feet to where i have my revolver hidden, took it out of the holster and came up, pointed guns at each other and i just fired away. fixler aims at point-blank range and shoots both men in the chest. the dramatic moment is played out in front of the store s surveillance camera. as you view the surveillance tape, you could see him cursing, i ll kill you, i ll kill, i ll kill you. now he s mad at me. he probably thought i just ran to duck underneath the counter and a scaredy-cat, not knowing
that i m armed. as i went around the counter i shot the other fellow who was also armed, in the side of the chest. he goes down and both go down. the fellow i shot at the first time got up and stepped over his so-called partner to race out of the store. the man in black escapes unharmed because he s wearing a bulletproof vest. but the man on the ground is badly wounded. it turns out he isn t wearing one. his partner was shot in the side. his spinal cord severed, but actually makes it to my door and collapses. the man in the black coat, who had just high-tailed it out of the store, jumps into a brown minivan, the get-away car, and screeches out of the parking lot, leaving the second man behind. the clarkstown police department responds within minutes. when detective bill fritz arrives he finds fixler, pistol