DAUGHTER’S BRAVERY
Incredible moment brave girl, 8, batters armed robber with BASEBALL BAT after thug pulled gun on her dad at his shop
Watch the little girl springing into action and whacking the thug on the ground
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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Shocking footage shows the assailant 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 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, 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.
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"He put the gun on the table, he asked me to give him all the money and everything in the register," Leo told .
The shop manager said he tried to negotiate with the apparently armed robber, offering to give all of the cash from the register in exchange for his daughter's safety.
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."
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But the man still walked behind the counter with the gun in his hand, sparking a fight with Leo.
The dad immediately tried fighting him off, punching the thug and wrestling him to the floor.
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The protective parent explained: "I'm a dad, I'm not going to let that happen."
But just moments later, Leo's young daughter is captured on camera running to his rescue with the baseball bat.
She whacks the attacker multiple times as he grapples on the ground with her father.
Leo eventually succeeded in taking the gun away from the would-be robber, who fled without his weapon or any money, according to the Star Tribune.
"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."
Shortly after the attack, police noticed the suspect with blood on his lips and a cut beneath one eye.
Cops have named him as Conchobhar Morrell, 37, of St. Paul, Minnesota.
He insisted he wasn't in the store and claimed he was only in the area to go to a nearby tobacco shop.
Morrell also claimed his facial injuries had reopened after being sustained in a fight two days beforehand.
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.
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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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