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Three jewelery workers have brandished swords to fight four potential thieves during an attempted robbery in Mississauga, Ontario, police said.
Const. Danny Marttini said the incident occurred around 12:15 pm. On Wednesday at Ashok Jewelers, four masked suspects came out of a truck and one person started breaking the windows of the store.
A surveillance video released by the police to identify suspects shows a man jumping inside the store before three employees rush him with naked swords.
Another suspect pulls the man outside the store through the broken window, while the employees grab hold of swords. One of the employees fell while wielding his sword.
"It could have gone wrong in many ways," said Marttini.
One of the suspects then pointed a gun inside the store. The suspects then fled, climbed into their truck and rushed through a red light, barely missing the collision with two transport trucks.
"I do not know how they did not kill each other," Marttini said of the suspects, who left empty-handed.
The police think that three of the suspects are men and are not sure of the fourth. The fleeing car is a dark colored Dodge Durango, she said.
Despite the successful efforts of the employees, Marttini said it was better to leave the fight against crime to the police.
"We do not tolerate violence to fight violence," she said. "Better save yourself than your property. Your life is more important than jewelry.
At the end of July, three masked men struck a van in another jeweler's shop in Mississauga and took it for $ 100,000.
Baldev Manjania, the store owner, said that he thought his wife was going to be affected by the robbery. So he grabbed a sword and ran after the suspects when they left.
In this case, the suspects jumped into their car and fled.
"I went to get my sword because I had to do something to save my family," Manjania said at the time.
Marttini stated that they had no information suggesting that the two incidents were related.
