{"id":13989,"date":"2016-05-16T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=13989"},"modified":"2016-05-16T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:55:42","slug":"firefighter-helps-police-catch-robber-in-pearland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=13989","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter helps police catch robber in Pearland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watch the report HERE\u203a<\/a>\u203a<\/p>\n

(KPRC<\/a>)\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Some people in Pearland say seeing attempted robberies near Pearland Parkway are rare. Which is why an off-duty firefighter was in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n

Craig Armstrong has a lot of titles: He\u2019s a Santa Fe city firefighter, a paramedic and some might call him a hero.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly I wasn\u2019t trying to do anything heroic,\u201d Armstrong said. \u201cI reacted, I\u2019m a dad, I\u2019m a father and I saw a 15-year-old girl being chased at gunpoint and I did what most dads would do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday night, he was done shopping with his 11-year-old daughter at the H-E-B off Pearland Parkway when he noticed something wasn\u2019t right.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the mom and one of the girl\u2019s running back towards the store screaming and yelling: \u2018He\u2019s got a gun, he\u2019s got a gun,\u201d\u2018 Armstrong recalled.<\/p>\n

After Armstrong told his daughter to hit the deck in their Chevy Tahoe, he spotted the would-be robber, and took action.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I just yelled \u2018hey\u2019 really loudly, but it got his attention and I sped at him really quickly and he took off running,\u201d Armstrong said.<\/p>\n

Armstrong said a couple of H-E-B employees chased after the man, but the suspect turned around and pointed his gun at them. He then jumped in a car with two others and tried to drive away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we were both a little scared,\u201d Armstrong said, referring to himself and his daughter.<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t stop the duo from tailing the suspect car a few miles and leading Pearland police right to the three men.<\/p>\n

\u201cI give them kudos, they\u2019re amazing. They caught up to these guys quickly and they did an awesome job,\u201d Armstrong said. \u201cI have to say our Pearland PD does a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pearland officers arrested the three men in the car and Armstrong says he wanted to get the story out there so that guys like that don\u2019t show up in his hometown again.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"