Robber Hit With Bat During Botched Holdup in Chicago

Robber hit with bat: A Chicago store owner armed with a baseball bat fought back against two gunmen who were trying to rob him.

The Chicago Tribune reported that two men walked into Luis Quizhpe’s store in Logan Square on Tuesday and demanded he and his relative give up their money.

“One of the guys said, ‘Give me the money or you are dead’,” said relative Luis Aucaquizhpi, according to ABC News.

Quizhpe then grabbed a baseball bat and hit one of the robbers. He was shot in the leg but kept fighting.

His relative eventually chased the robbers down the street with a fire extinguisher.

“My father pulled a bat and started swinging at them,” Juan Quizhpe, Luis’s son, told the station. “One of the robbers actually shot his partner, and that’s when they tried to flee.”

Cornell Mack, 53, one of the robbers, was accidentally shot by his fellow accomplice and was taking to a nearby hospital. Police are still looking for the second gunman, according to the Tribune.

“I thought it was a toy, but what made me frightened and really made me angry was when they grabbed my brother-in-law by the neck and they were pointing the gun at him,” Luis Quizhpe told the paper in elaborating on the incident.

He said that he did not realize he was shot until he got on the phone and called the police afterward.

“I felt something warm down my leg,” he told the paper. “I lost about a pint of blood.”