Dramatic moment Asian smoke shop owner stabs robber who jumped counter of his Las Vegas store

The owner of a Las Vegas smoke shop was seen on video stabbing a would-be robber seven times after the criminal jumped the counter. 

Johnny Nguyen, the clerk working the counter of Smokestrom Smoke Shop on Wednesday, saw two people described only as juveniles enter wearing masks, according to 8NewsNow. 

Nguyen can be heard asking: ‘Why are you guys wearing masks like that?’ After they refuse to answer, he requests them ‘to just leave’. 

The clerk said that ‘at first I thought they were normal customers and then I realized they had like ski masks on. I had to assume they had a firearm so I just wanted to make sure I could protect myself’.

He adds that though he never saw a visible firearm, he felt ‘I couldn’t take that chance’ given the situation. 

Johnny Nguyen (pictured), the clerk working the counter of Smokestrom Smoke Shop on Wednesday, saw two people described only as juveniles enter wearing masks

The clerk said that ‘at first I thought they were normal customers and then I realized they had like ski masks on. I had to assume they had a firearm so I just wanted to make sure I could protect myself’. The accomplice of the attacker who was stabbed is pictured 

Before long, one of the two juveniles grabs what looks like a mug from the counter next to Nguyen’s cash register and walks toward the door.

Attempting to reason with him, Nguyen says he can take the mug but leave the coins that were inside of it. 

The same kid then reaches and grabs another item before turning and trying to make off with it.

The other juvenile then jumps over the glass case toward Nguyen, who is on video grabbing some sort of sharp object by his register. 

The clerk then runs at the kid and stabs him what appears to be seven times, with the juvenile audibly heard yelling: ‘I’m dead! I’m dead!’. He then falls to the ground.

Nguyen seen looking down at the would be robber that he just stabbed in self defense seven times

Nguyen calls 911 after leaving the masked crook near the front door of Smokestrom, where he can be heard telling Nguyen that this ‘wasn’t my idea’ and asking him to ‘not let me die’

Nguyen said it was an ‘adrenaline rush and fight or flight even thinking about it now my heart rate is a little bit elevated’. 

He then calls 911 after leaving the masked crook near the front door of Smokestrom, where he can be heard telling Nguyen that this ‘wasn’t my idea’ and asking him to ‘not let me die’.  

‘I don’t think he planned on getting stabbed that day obviously, but if you try robbing a store you are taking a risk. This is a small business obviously,’ Nguyen said.

Both wannabe robbers were arrested by Las Vegas police. The one who Nguyen stabbed was treated for his injuries at a hospital, with no further details about his identity shared.

Nguyen has not been arrested.