Vannarithros Ross and his family fought off a robber who entered their package store on Aug. 2, 2007. (Photo: CBS)Aug 3, 2007
(CBS) METHUEN, Mass. - A holdup man picked the wrong target Thursday night when he walked into a package store in Methuen, Mass.
"When I opened the door I see the guy stand right there, gun pointed at my daughter," said Vannarithros Ross, who had just returned to his family-run package store after running an errand.
"And my daughter told me in my language that we got robbed….He didn't know I was behind him, so just grabbed him real tight so by his reaction I'm afraid he gonna pull the trigger on my kid."
Ross says his son grabbed a bottle of fish sauce and hit the gunman on the head as Ross swung him to the floor. "My son, he just reacting. He keep hitting on the head until I told him, stop it because he was gonna kill the guy."
Ross says police came with two or three minutes. "That's very fast. Amazing. Very amazing."
Methuen police say an investigation has not determined any criminal acts on the family's part.
So how does Ross feel today? "Well, I still feel bad for the guy cause there's so much blood on the floor."
Ross considers himself lucky.
In his native Cambodia, he survived the Pol Pot Regime and the Khmer Rouge.
The gun the suspect flashed during the robbery turned out to be a BB gun but Ross and his family didn't know that. Police planned to charge the gunman with robbery when he gets out of the hospital.
A poetic post script to this story, Mr. Ross' name, in Cambodian, means survive. (KI-Media note: Mr. Ross' name should be spelled Ruos)
Police say the hold-up man had $400 to $500 in his pocket, taken from the store's cash register, but the family got it back.
(CBS) METHUEN, Mass. - A holdup man picked the wrong target Thursday night when he walked into a package store in Methuen, Mass.
"When I opened the door I see the guy stand right there, gun pointed at my daughter," said Vannarithros Ross, who had just returned to his family-run package store after running an errand.
"And my daughter told me in my language that we got robbed….He didn't know I was behind him, so just grabbed him real tight so by his reaction I'm afraid he gonna pull the trigger on my kid."
Ross says his son grabbed a bottle of fish sauce and hit the gunman on the head as Ross swung him to the floor. "My son, he just reacting. He keep hitting on the head until I told him, stop it because he was gonna kill the guy."
Ross says police came with two or three minutes. "That's very fast. Amazing. Very amazing."
Methuen police say an investigation has not determined any criminal acts on the family's part.
So how does Ross feel today? "Well, I still feel bad for the guy cause there's so much blood on the floor."
Ross considers himself lucky.
In his native Cambodia, he survived the Pol Pot Regime and the Khmer Rouge.
The gun the suspect flashed during the robbery turned out to be a BB gun but Ross and his family didn't know that. Police planned to charge the gunman with robbery when he gets out of the hospital.
A poetic post script to this story, Mr. Ross' name, in Cambodian, means survive. (KI-Media note: Mr. Ross' name should be spelled Ruos)
Police say the hold-up man had $400 to $500 in his pocket, taken from the store's cash register, but the family got it back.
