She brought a hammer to a gunfight — and won.
A Georgia convenience store clerk fought off a pistol-packing teenage robber with her bare hands and then chased him out of her shop with a hammer, harrowing surveillance video showed.
“I said, ‘Go ahead. You wanna shoot me? Go ahead,’” Keysville Convenience Store employee Bhumika Patel told WFXG after the Tuesday stickup.
Christian Dakota Thornton, 17, was arrested a day later after investigators identified him from the video of the wild confrontation.
The teenager waltzed into the Burke County gas station shop on Tuesday, picked up a can of Mountain Dew and approached the counter to pay for the soda. When Patel popped open cash register’s drawer to make change, the normal transition turned violent: Thornton whipped out a gun from his hoodie pocket and pointed it at the clerk.
“He says 'get me all the money' or else I'll shoot you,’” Patel recalled.
But instead of forking over the cash, Patel tried to smack the gun away from Thornton’s hand. She started hitting the teen’s head first with her hands and then with the drawer of the cash register.
As Thornton began to back away from the feisty clerk, Patel grabbed a hammer from being the counter and chased the would-be robber out of the shop. He left penniless.
Patel said she wasn’t nervous during the outlandish battle — and she didn’t think twice about taking on the gunman.
"I just believe strongly in my religion and my God, if he wants to save me, nobody can touch me,” she said. “That's why I'm like, ‘No.’ I have my God everywhere with me.”
Thornton was charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during a crime. He was denied bond during a Friday court hearing.
Patel said she’s do it all over again if she had to.
"My city, my country going broke, because he robs," said Patel.