Alaska News

Video: Store owner tells story of disarming that would-be robber

An Anchorage cigarette store owner facing her first-ever armed robbery said Friday that she stopped feeling fear after disarming the attacker of a gun and then a knife.

Young Jun, 39, said her first indication that 33-year-old Tonya Holler wasn't an ordinary customer was the moment when she reached into her purse and pulled out a pistol.

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