‘I felt like I was put into a corner between choosing between my job and my life, and I’m always going to choose my life because there’s people that depend on me’
By Joe Kovacs
A 7-Eleven clerk in Oklahoma who shot an attacker choking her and threatening to kill her in a dispute over counterfeit cash has now found herself out of a job, as the convenience store fired her.
The mayhem erupted Thursday night in Oklahoma City, where Stephanie Dilyard, 25, got into a confrontation with 59-year-old Kenneth Thompson, who allegedly sought to pay with a fake $100 bill.
“He threatened me, and said he was gonna slice my head off, and that’s when I tried to call the police,” Dillard told KOKH-TV..”He started throwing things at me, came behind the counter. I tried to run off, but he grabbed his hands around my neck, and pushed me out of the counter space, that’s when I pulled out my gun and I shot him.”