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>> give me everything i wont kill nothing. everything i wont kill nothing! >> i didnt think nothing of it until he pulled out the gun and then he fired that one shot. then that first shot was like a popping sound. i was thinking maybe he had blanks. thats when i -- i stepped back from the register. thats when i was concerned about what he was doing. and bam. [ gunshot ] i hit the ground. then he shot another time. >> after the gunman fires a third shot at the wall, he leaves empty handed. donald...

>> i dont really look forward to anybody protecting me when im in trouble. i dont expect it but it would have been all right if it did happen. >> 2,700 miles from philadelphia is bakersfield, california. where another sinister act is caught on camera. [ gunshot ] >> i kept my eyes closed and just tried to keep calm. >> donald ray batch owns and runs the chester lane market. february 16th, 2006, begins as just another day at the store for him. >> i was attending to my customers, you know, doing m...

Donald is wounded and struggling on the floor behind the counter. >> it hit me in the arm, my left arm, and it hit me in the left side. and then it went out my back through the wall. >> were you shot? >> customers in the store are terrified and stunned. >> dont move him. >> dont move him. >> one of them calls 911. >> he had a mask on. >> donald is rushed to the hospital where in the process of saving his life, doctors make a shocking discovery. >> my spleen was obliterated. so they had to do a s...

Third shot at the wall, he leaves empty handed. donald is wounded and struggling on the floor behind the counter. >> it hit me in the arm, my left arm and it hit me in the left side. and then it went out my back through the wall. >> were you shot? >> customers in the store are terrified and stunned. >> dont move him. >> dont move him. >> one of them calls 911. >> he had a mask on. >> donald is rushed to the hospital where in the process of saving his life, doctors make a shocking discovery. >> m...

>> i swear to god, give me everything. >> and the bullets were like a surgical strike. they hit a certain spot in me that needs medical attention. it seemed like the whole thing was just like an act of god. thats the way i look at it. >> donald eventually returns to work, but makes one adjustment. he installs bulletproof glass for protection. >> these guys that rob, they cant jump over it, they cant go around it. its too much problem to get through it. so its good protection. >> the glass helps ...

To 4 to 10 years in prison followed by 15 years probation. >> this is an unusual event, but it just goes to show we have to look out for one another. if we see something going on, all of us as citizens have to step up and take some kind of action. you just cant have something like this happen and do nothing. >> i dont really look forward to anybody protecting me when im in trouble. i dont expect it but it would have been all right if it did happen. >> 2,700 miles from philadelphia is bakersfield...

Was just like an act of god. thats the way i look at it. >> donald eventually returns to work, but makes one adjustment. he installs bulletproof glass for protection. >> these guys that rob, they cant jump over it, they cant go around it. its too much problem to get through it. so its good protection. >> the glass helps donald in more ways than one. >> a lot of people come in sick. it stops bullets, but you know what, it also stops germs. >> as for the man who fired the shots, cops think the sus...

Arm and it hit me in the left side. and then it went out my back through the wall. >> were you shot? >> customers in the store are terrified and stunned. >> dont move him. >> dont move him. >> one of them calls 911. >> he had a mask on. >> donald is rushed to the hospital where in the process of saving his life, doctors make a shocking discovery. >> my spleen was obliterated. so they had to do a splenectomy. when they took that out, there was a tumor attached to that. i didnt know i had that. >>...

>> this is an unusual event, but it just goes to show we have to look out for one another. if we see something going on, all of us as citizens have to step up and take some kind of action. you just cant have something like this happen and do nothing. >> i dont really look forward to anybody protecting me when im in trouble. i dont expect it but it would have been all right if it did happen. >> 2,700 miles from philadelphia is bakersfield, california. where another sinister act is caught on camer...

Arm and it hit me in the left side. and then it went out my back through the wall. >> were you shot? >> customers in the store are terrified and stunned. >> dont move him. >> dont move him. >> one of them calls 911. >> he had a mask on. >> donald is rushed to the hospital where in the process of saving his life, doctors make a shocking discovery. >> my spleen was obliterated. so they had to do a splenectomy. when they took that out, there was a tumor attached to that. i didnt know i had that. >>...