 I spoke to the owners of the restaurant who declined to go on camera. However, they did describe those tense moments during the altercation when they say two former employees came in through the back of the restaurant. Some words were exchanged and the owner said that he asked those two people to leave the store. That's when he said the trouble began. When one of the salons burst past him, ran up to the front of the store and threw the cash register off the counter and smashed it on the floor. That's when he says the other assailant, a woman, rushed in and began taking money out of the cash register while the first assailant assaulted him. He showed me the cut over his eye where he had been in a fist fight with the two people. The two then left the store through the back exit and entered their car. It was at that time that gunfire was exchanged where the owner tells me he did return fire in self-defense.