Marine shot at after armored truck heist, chasing robbers

Former Marine gives chase to armed bandits, nearly hit in gunfire
Brian Cotts bravely chased after the armed bandits after they held up an armored truck outside a Checkers restaurant in Maryland on Thursday. The suspects opened fire, hitting Cotts' truck, but the good Samaritan suffered only minor injuries during the wild ordeal. Cops soon joined the pursuit and cuffed the suspects.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
BY JOE KEMP
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2014

NBC4 WASHINGTON
Cotts was not hit by any bullets, but was cut from the shattered glass in his windshield.

A former Marine was nearly killed when a pack of bandits opened fire on him during a wild chase after an armored truck heist in Maryland.

But Brian Cotts claimed it was the only way he knew to help.

“I’m still in a daze,” Brian Cotts told NBC News. “I’m really, really proud of myself because I saved a life.”

Cotts said that he was sitting in his red pickup truck with a passenger when he saw four men hold up a Garda truck outside a Checkers restaurant in Suitland about 11 a.m. on Thursday.
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