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>> give me everything i won't kill nothing. everything i won't kill nothing! >> i didn't 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. that's when i -- i stepped back from the register. that's 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 is wounded and struggling on the floor behind the counter. >> it hit me in the arm, my left ar...

>> i don't really look forward to anybody protecting me when i'm in trouble. i don't 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 my normal stuff. you know, selling stuff, working on the cash register. >> then at 8:36 p.m., the ...

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. >> don't move him. >> don't 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 didn't know i had that....

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. >> don't move him. >> don't 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 tu...

>> 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. that's 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 can't jump over it, they can't go around it. it's too much problem to get through it. so it's good protection. >> the glass helps donald in more ways than one. >> a lot of people come in sick. it stops bullets, but you know w...