Caught On Tape: Drive-Thru Customer Shoots, Wounds Robbery Suspect In Santa Ana

cbs2la ^ | May 26, 2018 at 7:19 pm

[BenLurkin]

The Cozy Corner’s security cameras were rolling at 12:43 Saturday morning when police say a masked man entered the restaurant with a black revolver and demanded money.

He threw a bag at one of the workers and demanded she fill it with cash. Her hands shaking, she filled the bag. As he grabbed the bag, shots rang out.

At least one shot hits the drink machine. Next you see the man turns and he is wounded and falls to the floor.

“Tres balazos,” said witness and restaurant cook Daniel Acevedo. That translates into three bullets.

Detectives marked at least two bullet holes.

Acevedo said the shots came from the drive-thru window. Security video shows a car fleeing into the night onto Harbor Boulevard.

The cook said a man and two women had pulled up to order food at the same time the robber was inside....

“Al mejor el carro quizo ayudar,” Acevedo said, believing the people in the car were trying to help, at best.

[Parley Baer]

Good shooting by the customer.

[rktman]

🔫 Black revolver? Always tossing race into it........oh. 😹

[wmileo]

"Acevedo said, believing the people in the car were trying to help, at best."

Trying to help at best?. They saved your bacon.

[dragnet2]

Oh yeah...

From the drive through window....Top that...

[dragnet2]

Only in CA!

Too funny...The suspect never even saw the shooter.

[BenLurkin]

I would have translated that as “At most…”

[PLMerite]

Paul Kersey lives!

[dragnet2]

Shooter vehicle bails leaving the suspect with 2 into the upper body.

I wonder if the shooter and the suspect knew each other? If not, give the shooter the keys to the city when they locate him.

[dragnet2]

Ya know, I don’t ever think I’ve heard of a armed robbery where the robbery suspect was shot from the drive through window.

Some reports say it’s possible shooter the suspect had argued earlier. No surprise.

[stylin19a]

wow...narrow sight line.
wonder why the shooter didn’t stick around ?
could it have been a hit ?

[Paladin2]

How do they know it wasn’t dark blue?

[Paladin2]

The shooter could have been the get away driver.

[riri]

Sh@t hole.

Drove through last summer. We stopped at a fast food restaurant so my husband could use the bathroom and to look for a hotel. He walked in on two guys shooting up.

[dragnet2]

I mentioned that at #9. My first thought it was a gang set up, possibly gang members put one of their own up to be the stickup man, while they blast him from the drive through.

Btw, reports exist that indicate the suspect and shooter were seen arguing earlier. ☺

[dragnet2]

Ya should have went to Cozy Corner Drive In! Good burritos! But for your own safety, sit at the back. Or use the drive through!☺

[Mastador1]

Why the hell do they feel the need to print the statements in spanish and then again translated? Just who the F___K do they think their audience is?

Other than that sounds like some needs target practice, though still better than the police!

[BenLurkin]

It’s basically a transcription of the audio in the report.

[Mastador1]

"Acevedo said, believing the people in the car were trying to help, at best." Trying to help at best?. They saved your bacon.

I'm willing to bet the illiterate Acevedo meant they were doing their best to help. Still whoever this reporter was they must have failed English, sadly that's still alright for a journalist nowadays.

[TexasGator]

“Good shooting by the customer.”

Yep. Got the cup the first shot!