FRESNO, CA. (THECOUNT) — Quick thinking Fresno, CA, gas station clerk, Savannah Pritchett, is being hailed as a hero after snapping into action when a woman, shaking with fear, pleaded for help to hide her from kidnappers.
Surveillance video shows an unidentified woman walking into the Northern California gas station and talking to the clerk inside. Armed kidnappers were trailing the victim and lurking just outside the business’s door.
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Pritchett locks the store’s front door and walks the woman towards the restroom, locking her inside and giving her a cell phone to call 911. Then the clerk lets the alleged kidnappers into the store.
“I knew that if I left the door locked they would have caught on to something and probably took off. So I went back up there, and I unlocked the door. They seriously had no idea that I knew anything,” said Pritchett. source
Minutes later, officers storm in with guns drawn and arrested 18-year-old Anthony Sandoval and eventually, three juvenile suspects.
The suspects told police that the victim had been kidnapped a day earlier in Fresno and was sexually assaulted.
The victim is now home safe with her family.