Madera jewelry store owner opens fire on group of masked robbers

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Surveillance video captured tense moments successful the North Valley arsenic a radical of masked robbers broke into a Madera jewelry store located connected North Country Club.

Within seconds, the store proprietor took matters into his ain hands and opened occurrence connected the crooks sending them moving retired the door.

As unsuspecting customers near Olivia's Fine Jewelry store successful Madera astir 7 Thursday evening, surveillance video captured a radical of astir 5 masked radical complaint in.

The thieves rapidly filed into the store, darting consecutive for the solid cases, sending the worker astatine the antagonistic to question safety.

One fishy stayed astatine the doorway arsenic a lookout.

In a substance of seconds, the proprietor came retired of the backmost of the store with his ain gun, firing 3 to 5 shots.

The crooks took disconnected moving arsenic helium chased them retired the door.

"It's shocking to the conscience. It's scary to the household due to the fact that it is simply a mom-and-pop store with household being your ain employees, it's your ain concern and your livelihood," says Sergeant Blake Short, Madera Police Department.

Even though the shots were fired, authorities accidental nary 1 was hit.

The thieves were capable to marque disconnected with an estimated $170,000 successful high-value jewelry.

"I judge the store proprietor did what helium felt was indispensable astatine the time. We don't ever urge that successful this field. Fortunately, nary 1 was harmed successful this situation," says Sergeant Short.

Madera Police telephone the robbery sophisticated, adding that the young big suspects had a wide plan.

"Preliminary probe shows they were successful the country for a small while, we would telephone that pacing. This was decidedly meticulous. It was thought out. It did not look to beryllium a archetypal clip for these individuals," says Sergeant Short.

Bullet holes done show cases, caution portion outside.

The commotion sent shockwaves done the buying center.

"I got scared; it was precise scary. We heard conscionable a large noise. I told the manager I deliberation that's a gunshot," says Veronica Casillas, a adjacent store employee.

Authorities were capable to retrieve the getaway car, described arsenic a acheronian grey Audi. They accidental the suspects ditched it conscionable extracurricular the Madera metropolis limits.

The probe remains ongoing and nary further descriptions of the suspects person been released.

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