Thursday, Sept. 25 update: Police arrested Jason Clark, 21, in connection with the liquor store robbery.
Indianapolis - A store clerk is recovering from multiple gunshot wounds after a shootout with an armed robber.
Surveillance video shows store clerk Charles Pipkin and a robber exchanging gunfire at Crown Liquors, which is near Rockville Road and I-465.
Pipkin believes they were both hit.
Doctors left 3 bullets in Pipkin's body - including 1 in each of the his hands.
"He shot me in my right chest, it went through my lung and is sitting in my back muscle," said Pipkin.
The video shows Pipkin waiting on a customer when the robber enters. The robber is carrying a 2-liter bottle of soda and walks behind the counter.
"He grabbed 10's and 20's and then said, 'Give me your wallets,'" said Pipkin.
The store clerk said he fired first in defense. The robber ran away after the two exchanged fire.
Pipkin called 911 and explained that he had been shot three times - once in the chest.
Eight minutes after the robber took off, people at the West 16th Street Rally's restaurant called 911 where 21-year-old Jason Clark of Jamaica says a carjacker shot him.
The store clerk doubts Clark's story.
"The Jamaican accent, that is the same description I gave to the police," said Pipkin.
Pipkin came back to Crown Liquors to talk to his coworkers about what happened. This is not his first time coming face to face with a gunman. It also happened in 2006.
In June 2006, Pipkin got into a shootout with convicted robber Larry Craig.
"I went through it before. I really wasn't scared," said Pipkin.
Pipkin has lined up another job and he hopes he won't end up in another dangerous situation like this one.
