View
comments
A Subway worker was suspended after dramatic surveillance footage showing her bravely fighting off an armed robber was leaked online.
Araceli Sotelo was working alone at a Subway in Rockford, Illinois last Sunday when a man stormed in demanding money.
'He kind of just showed me his gun, and I was like freaking out like, 'woah you can't do that please leave,'' Sotelo said. '[He said] 'give me all the money' and I said 'I do not have any money, like, I do not have any money.' That is all I had and he was just like, 'give me everything before I hurt you.''
Araceli Sotelo was working alone at a Subway in Rockford, Illinois when a man dressed in all black came in the store demanding money
Sotelo yelled at the man to leave the store and fought back when he grabbed her purse
She wrestled the man pulling off his hoodie and what appears to be a red scarf. The man then dropped his gun and her purse in the struggle. Sotelo snatched the gun from the floor and hit the man with it when he refused to give her the purse
In the video, Sotelo can be heard frantically screaming 'stop' and 'get