Customer Armed With Baseball Bat Saves Clerk In Weymouth
WEYMOUTH (CBS) - A quick-thinking customer with a baseball bat is credited with saving a clerk who was being stabbed at a gas station in Weymouth.
Investigators say a man with a knife went into Rooney's gas station on Main Street Monday morning, intent on robbing the store.
The 24-year-old clerk tried to fight him off, but ended up getting stabbed several times in the arm.
A customer saw what was happening, so he ran out and grabbed a baseball bat from his car.
He beat the man with the bat, hitting him in the head. Other customers then held the attacker, later identified by police as 40-year old Jeramie Goodfellow of Hingham, until officers arrived.
Goodfellow and the clerk were both taken to South Shore Hospital.
There's no word on their conditions.
Goodfellow faces several charges including assault with intent to murder.
Officers are not releasing the name of the Good Samaritan, only saying he is a 41-year-old from Weymouth.
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