Lansing Police have a warning tonight: Don't take justice into your own hands.
Yesterday a clerk at the Eastside Party Store tried to stop a robbery and was shot in the process.
He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Earlier this week Marco's Pizza employees followed suspects after being robbed at gunpoint.
We spoke with one of the Marco's employees about what happened and explain why police say you should never intervene in a robbery.
Sunday night at the Larch Street Marco's Pizza began like any other; stretching dough, adding toppings, cutting pizza.
That is until about 8 o'clock.Justin Jardine, Marco's Employee: "A gentleman came in with a gun, held us up, robbed us...they were pointing it at all of us, they said give us all the money."
That's when Marco's employee Justin Jardine and a fellow co-worker jumped into action.
Jardine: "Me and another gentleman here ran out the back door and got into the vehicle...just trying to stay up to em, figure out where they were going so we could tell the cops."
An act Lansing Police say, is extremely dangerous.
That proved to be the case for the clerk at the Eastside Party Store.
He was shot after trying to trap the suspects inside the store by holding a glass door shut.
Robert Merritt, Lansing Police Public Information Officer: "Don't get involved to the point of where you're following or trying to stop the actual robbery or the person with the weapon."
Instead police say in the event of a robbery, what you should do is focus on being a better witness.
Merritt: "If you get a chance, jot down a few things that are fresh in your mind...the product or the money isn't worth your life."
But Jardine says during the chase, he never felt unsafe.
Jardine: "I guess cause we were in a separate vehicle, we were at a distance ya know, plus there was another guy with me so, i wasn't the one driving i could give direction."
Merritt: "I don't recommend what the marcos employees did, however it help us with the actual apprehension of the bad guys."
But police say it could have ended much differently; turning a bad situation into a tragic one.
Those three suspects were arraigned today in connection to the robbery at Marco's pizza. Karl Parker and Demetrius Hallums Jr. were each charged with robbery and weapons felonies. Andrew Johnson was chaged with resisting arrest.
After the empoyees gave the location of the suspects, police caught up with them at a house in the 15-hundred block of Redwood.
