https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCu4G_ZkBI0
A Las Vegas vape store owner repeatedly stabbed a crook who frightened him by jumping over his counter during a botched robbery, according to video and the worker’s account of the incident.
Video footage showed the brazen broad-daylight heist on Wednesday, in which Johnny Nguyen, owner of Smokestrom Smoke Shop, stabbed the unidentified assailant at least seven times before the robber yelled, “I’m dead” and fell to the ground.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officials told The Post that cops responded Wednesday afternoon to a robbery incident at the vape business but would not release further details.
“I was scared for my life,” Nguyen told The Post on Friday. “When they came in, one of them had a bag in front of him like he had a firearm or something. I didn’t have much time to think. I grabbed my knife right next to the register.”
Nguyen, 22, said it was around 3:25 p.m. on Wednesday when two men wearing black ski masks entered his shop while another stood by the door. Video footage showed Nguyen asking the two suspects why they were wearing the ski masks.
When Nguyen asked them to leave, one of the suspects grabbed the tip jar.
“I asked them first nicely to leave but the guy took my tip jar, which was fine,” Nguyen said. “When they came back and tried to take some more, that’s when it escalated.”
Surveillance footage showed one of the suspects jump over the counter and try to grab some products off the shelf. Fearing for his life, Nguyen said he grabbed his knife with a three-inch blade and stabbed the assailant seven times.
“Stop, please! I’m dead! I’m dead,” the would-be robber said as he collapsed to the ground.
“I remember him saying, ‘Please don’t let me die,’” Nguyen said. “He said he was sorry. By that point, he took off his mask himself. I was trying to get on the phone with the police when he was trying to talk to me. I just ran and wanted to make sure the police and ambulance would get here on time.”
Nguyen said police told him the robber was 17-years old. His condition was not clear.
The brazen attempted robbery at Nguyen’s Las Vegas shop happened a day after another business owner in California made national headlines after he shot a robber who entered his liquor store armed with an AR-15 style rifle.
Video footage also caught Craig Cope, owner of the Norco Market & Liquor in Norco, Calif., firing at the armed robber, who ran out of the store screaming and escaping in a vehicle with other suspects.
Nguyen, who turns 23 on Saturday, said he is thankful that he survived the ordeal. He said the incident left him “shook” and he plans to look into arming himself with other weapons for protection.
“Small business owners like us, this is our livelihood,” Nguyen told The Post. “Not only are they threatening our lives, but our livelihood, so we have to stay vigilant.”
Good to see an Asian man standing up. We are natural allies.
Hey dumbass! We’re not “natural allies” because he’s “Asian”. We’re natural allies because the Asian guy is an AMERICAN! With American VALUES, BELIEFS and TRADITIONS.
Meh, Asian here. America has become much less appealing and lame as a result of claiming trash from all over the world as their own. You are no longer unique as you once were, and now both your society and culture are a fucking mess. See Russia. See China. They all have their own culture and ethic, which makes them much more unique and attractive than you, a freaking chimera that mauls and eats itself. Values? Beliefs? Traditions? Like fucking each other in the arse and killing foreigners with drones? You were once a proud Christian nation with mostly white people. Now you are a fucking public toilet.
I recall the card game, fuck your neighbor.
I say kill all criminals in the act without mercy or remorse.
They asked for it, so give it to them good and hard.
Assumes facts not in evidence … but let’s hope you’re right that he’s in any way an American with American values, beliefs and traditions.
Luckily for him, those robbers are not black, or else the story would be told differently.
Would telling the story differently heal even one of those stab wounds?
“Stories” are for people who aren’t directly involved.
No, but the dude would go to jail for trying to defend his assets.
Did it appear to you that the store owner was overly concerned with going to jail as he was stabbing a guy 7 times while the guy put his hands in the air?
Store owner is obviously a member of the Gulf of Tonkin Knife and Gun Club. He had the training and wanted to kill. I know the type.
I’m not defending anyone here. They’re ALL guilty.
Yea, maybe he should stand aside and let himself be robbed blind. Wonderful cuck logic you got here. Mind telling me where you live? I would love to pay a visit.
Right, when shop boy isn’t full-timing at the vape shot, he is catching up on contracts like John Wick. Devious little bastid /s
You are a scum bag and a liar. At NO time did the perp have his hands up. Do the world a favor and go back to reading vogue.
You have become quite the loathsome commenter.
He did have his hands in the air. (See still shot above).
So what?
A little bit late for that.
He’s also on the wrong side of the counter (non public side).
He’s also in the commission of a felony.
And Nguyen is not a cop.
So what if he wants to kill.
Some of us get that opportunity so rarely these days.
But given the opportunity, many will jump at the chance.
(Never squander an opportunity to kill with impunity).
These two clowns presented the opportunity.
Nguyen merely grasped that opportunity.
As did Mr. Cope in California.
You are correct that we are all guilty, Mr. Scrutinizer.
I, for one, will never call 911 on myself.
That was beautifully done.
It was technically flawless, but there was nothing “beautiful” about it. It was a tragedy that it was necessary to begin with.
“It was a tragedy that it was necessary to begin with.”
Exactly. When people decide your stuff is more important than their life, it’s only right to help these stupid fucks off the mortal coil. They’re only fucking up the gene pool.
I disagree.
Tragedy is for the weepy eyed.
Necessity is never tragic.
What I saw was a point perfect execution of a left arm blocking maneuver clearing for multiple stab penetrations.
While a 3 inch blade will do some damage, the only opportunity to kill was provided at the point where the target rolled on the counter presenting his back.
The knife was at the back of his neck.
Had Nguyen intent to kill, he would have stabbed the man in the medulla (back of the neck), killing him instantly.
Opportunity squandered.
MORANS.
I’ll bet that was their first “heist”.
It was pathetic.
Play stupid games and win……..
I’m going to bet it drove the point home that crime don’t pay… 🙂
One thing made obvious too is the need to remove not only guns from the citizenry but knives as well… All these weapons are making it an unsafe working environment for the thieves and criminals.
That’s what they did in the UK
I know… and baby castro is trying to do the same here in canukistan
Brian
Another benefit, knives have like a “1,000 round capacity magazine”. Then, your arms get tired.
The whole “vape store” venue has “honeypot” written all over it. If you’ve ever watched the movie, Jack Reacher, you’d know that some people have an inborn compulsion to murder. They seek out circumstances that will allow them to indulge their desires under color of law. Judging by the speed and accuracy of each of those knife strikes, it is obvious to anyone with prior knowledge and experience on the topic (as I am) that the intention to kill (not merely disable) preceded the first stab (itself a kill shot behind the clavicle into the lung).
There are a host of unanswered questions surrounding this event. I accept your premise it was their first attempt at robbery. It sure looked like it. That plays into my theory perfectly.
I know a thing or two because I’ve seen and done a thing or two. It’s what qualifies me to be The Central Scrutinizer.
OTOH…maybe it’s as cut and dry as self defense.
Did the stabbing “recipient” survive or die?
Was he, in fact, armed? What was in the bag?
I still have questions and suspicions. In the end we’ve all got to stand with the law…especially when we theoretically make those laws ourselves.
Darwinism is a cruel taskmaster.
When did this country start questioning if someone has a right to defend their property? Someone needs to fuck these people up. Society can’t function with a whole class of people undermining honest and decent people.
Yup. NOT GUILTY!
It wouldn’t matter if he was armed or not. In the moment you cannot do a ‘time out’ and ask if any are armed or not, then decide your response. If someone comes in with balaclavas and a bag, according to the story, you have to assume they are armed. Especially in Nevada.
Its sad that a 17yr old and his buddies thought they would get away with robbing a store, whether armed or not. They will all get charged with armed robbery if one of them had a weapon. Nice way to destroy your future….
You chain yourself down with too many useless and dumb questions. It’s very simple. If somebody is wrongly trying to undermine your assets, you have the right and are honor bound to use lethal responses, especially when all communicating attempts have failed.
that some people have an inborn compulsion to murder. They seek out circumstances that will allow them to indulge their desires under color of law.
So what?
We don’t write the rules.
We just play by them.
You have a problem with this why?
I find your scrutiny wanting.
As to intent, see my previous post.
Young males are hard wired genetically to seek out adrenal surging confrontational activities as traditionally they would have been sent out alone into the jungle armed only with a spear and not allowed back in until they had killed a lion. In more modern times these urges would have be channeled into military service where their aggressive tendencies would have been useful. Now they just put on a dress and scare babies..
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. That maggot jumping over the counter got exactly what he needed. I just wish his piss ant buddy could have gotten the same. What a great country we live in. Thanks Democrats for all you have done.
Best defense is a good offence. Don’t take no shit from anyone, dearies.
The scumbag in the balaclava got what he wanted – a violent confrontation:
he lost. Good on Mr Nguyen for taking out the trash.
Watched it multiple times. Picks up knife at around 20 second mark next to cash register, when body language of offenders was still nonthreatening. Good for him for having a well developed 6th sense.
Is it even real, or is it another psy-op? Where is the blood on the store-owner’s hands at the end? I question everything put forth by media now-a-days, don’t you?
“I’m dead”
Yes, you probably are, good riddance!