Cashier of Robbed Buckhead Restaurant Threw Object At Fleeing Suspect: Police

The cashier at a Buckhead restaurant decided to take matters into his own hands after a man robbed the business several weeks ago, Buckhead Reporter says.

According to an Atlanta Police Department acquired by the outlet, the suspect walked into the restaurant in the 2300 block of Marietta Road, approached the cashier while holding his left hand in a jacket to look like a gun, and ordered the cashier to empty the till for him. The robber made off with $800, the report said.

After the robber fled the restaurant, the cashier gave chase wielding an ax handle. Once the chase made it to the restaurant’s parking lot, the cashier hurled the ax handle at the suspect, the report said. The cashier continued to pursue the robber through a hole in a fence and to a pedestrian walkway along Adams Drive.

The robber knew the passcode to enter the pedestrian walkway, but the cashier did not, according to the report. The cashier watched the robber run towards the rear of the a nearby building and disappear.

A different employee told police that he thought the robber was among a group of men who had come to the restaurant earlier in the day asking for money, according to the report.