Eventually, he makes his way around to the front. He turns his back to me and I grab his hands.
I wrestle with him, get the knife away from him, throw it under a table and I start fighting him," said Abadi.
He noted that the suspect claimed to possess additional weapons during the struggle.
"I pin him against the wall, one guy helps me. I ask everyone else to come help as well.
So at this point, I've gotten the knife away.
No one else comes in to help. He says, 'I have another knife, let me go'.
I'm like, if you have another knife, I'm not going to let you go," said Abadi.
Abadi detailed how the suspect attempted to steal vehicles outside immediately after.
"Starts to steal a truck," said Abadi.
The suspect then encountered resistance while attempting to flee in the first vehicle.
"Can't get it turned on, puts it in neutral.
I go up to the door; he pulls out a yellow box cutter, I back up, he rolls down the parking lot and hits another car and gets out, runs to the gas station trying to steal another car, and then the cops show up," said Abadi.
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Westview Freshslice pizza owner Bahman Afshari witnessed the subsequent events in the parking lot.
"I see the guy sitting in the pickup truck over there, the van, and they have a knife in his hand, try to hit the people who would get close to them," said Afshari.
