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THIS is the incredible moment a brave girl saved her dad at his liquor store after battering an armed robber with a baseball bat.
The fearless eight-year-old was seen coming to the rescue with an aluminium bat as the thug wrestled with her father on the shop floor.
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WCCO TVShocking footage shows the suspect pulling a gun on the girl’s dad, Leo, as he approached the counter at the Big Discount Liquors in Maplewood, Minnesota.
Leo said he was closing everything up at around 9.30pm on Saturday, when the man walked in and wandered through the store.
The thug allegedly grabbed a bottle of liquor and brought it to the till, the Star Tribune reports.
He was seen on camera wearing what appeared to be an Amazon uniform, reaching into his pocket, and placing an authentic-looking BB gun on the counter.
“He put the gun on the table, he asked me to give him all the money an everything in the register,” Leo told CBS News Minnesota.
Leo claimed to have made an effort to negotiate with the apparently armed robber, and offered to give all of the cash from the register in exchange for his daughter’s safety, who was waiting for him behind the counter.
He said: “I tried to talk to him and say, ‘I got my daughter here. Can you put the gun down, move it away from her? I will give you everything, take everything.’
“It’s money, I don’t care, I just care about the safety for her.”
But the man still walked behind the counter with the gun on his hand, sparking a fight with Leo.
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WCCO TVThe dad immediately tried fighting him off, punching the thug and wrestling him to the floor.
The protective parent explained: “I’m a dad, I’m not going to let that happen.”
But just moments later, Leo’s young daughter was captured on camera brandishing the baseball bat.
Before fleeing, she whacked the suspect multiple times while he was still on the ground.
Leo eventually succeeded in taking the gun away from him, who left the scene without taking his weapon or any money, according to the Star Tribune.
Shortly after, when he was strolling a few hundred feet north of the business, police noticed the robber with blood on his lips and a cut beneath one eye.
“I’m so proud of her, she’s so strong,” proud dad Leo told CBS News.
The shop manager admitted he didn’t realise she was trying to help him until he saw the surveillance footage.
He said: “When I saw the video, I didn’t expect she’d do that.
“I expected a little girl crying, screaming.”
Cops have since identified the suspect as Conchobhar Morrell, 37, of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Morrell reportedly fought arrest at first but later turned himself in to authorities.
He still insisted he wasn’t in the store and that his sole purpose for being there was to go to a nearby tobacco shop.
Morrell allegedly claimed that his facial injuries had to have reopened as they were from a fight two days prior.
An Amazon spokesperson said Morrell delivered products for Amazon as a delivery associate for a third-party business.
He will be “immediately offboarded”, the spokesperson added.
In lieu of posting a $40,000 bail before his Friday court appearance, Morrell is currently being held in jail on a charge of first-degree attempted aggravated robbery.
In 2004, he was found guilty of first-degree robbery in Minnesota.
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