WATCH: Pharmacist Fights Women In North Decatur Robbery

DECATUR, GA — A pharmacist and owner of a North Decatur Road pharmacy successfully fought off three women who tried to rob him at gunpoint, according to DeKalb County Police.

Mba Kalu was working at PCI Pharmacy at 3500 North Decatur Rd. at about 3:30 p.m. on April 24. The pharmacy is located in a shopping center just inside Interstate 285, at a Scottdale address just northeast of Decatur and Avondale Estates. (Watch video of the robbery attempt and violent struggle below.)

That's when police say one of the women, who pretended to need a prescription filled, reached into a pocket and, instead pulled out some kind of pepper spray, spraying Kalu with it. Video shows one of the other two women, who had been pretending to shop, pull a handgun on him at the same time.

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"It's either they shoot you or you're going to have to fight them," Kalu said to WSB-TV. "I thought, you know, I'm not going to go down like that. At least I have to go down fighting."

In the back of his mind, he said, was that his daughter was in the back of the store.

Video shows Kalu grab the handgun and, after a few seconds of struggling, pull it away from the woman pointing it at him. The three women can be seen on surveillance video running out of the pharmacy and DeKalb County Police say they drove away in what appeared to be an older-model, silver Ford Taurus.

Police say the car appeared to have damage to the front-right fender area.

Nothing was stolen in the robbery attempt, according to a police report. The handgun, which Kalu turned over to police was a black, .9-millimeter J.A. Nine, the report said. An employee of a neighboring business also showed police a pink and gray hat that one of the women dropped while they were running away.

It was not the first time Kalu, who opened the pharmacy in June 2017, has been the victim of a violent robbery there. In December, three masked men with handguns burst in and demanded drugs. Kalu told WSB he plans to increase security measures at the pharmacy.

Watch video of the robbery attempt and struggle below:

Photo, video courtesy DeKalb County Police Department