Surveillance footage shows a group of spring breakers who stopped an armed gunman who tried to rob them at a gas station in Florida, tackling the man and fighting off his accomplice, who was arrested shortly after.
who tried to rob them at a Florida gas station during spring break.
The incident happened near the victims' hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They were on their way back from a birthday party in South Beach when the would-be robber walked up to Alec Tanoos and pressed a gun into his stomach.Surveillance footage from the scene showed the gunman running up to the victims with a what appeared to be a shirt wrapped around his face. He told them to "give him give me everything you got," but the spring breakers, all in their 20s, weren't having it.
"Don't know there's a second guy in the car," Jacob Tanoos said. "He comes out and he pushes me off of him."
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