FORT MILL, S.C. — A Burger King employee on Carowinds Boulevard in Fort Mill said he’s leaving his job after a violent struggle during an armed robbery early Thursday, when a masked suspect held a knife to his back and demanded access to the restaurant’s safe, deputies said.
The armed robbery happened at 6:20 a.m. and the assailant got away with approximately $200, the York County Sheriff’s Office said.
Now, the employee said he is quitting.
The worker, who didn’t want to be identified, said he went to open the restaurant and thinks the robber was already inside.
“I could have been dead. I thought ... I was ... I thought it was over,” he said.
The employee was inside the Burger King starting his day.
“I was making tea, and he came up behind me,” the employee said. “I know I’m the only person in there. “
The suspect came up from behind, put a knife to his back, and demanded the code to the safe, he said.
“I said, ‘I don’t know no code to no safe,’” the victim said. “He said If I don’t get the code to the safe, ‘I’m going to kill you.’”
The Burger King employee broke loose, and said he threw the keys to the register down and ran toward the exit but fell.
He said the suspect dragged him, but the employee eventually escaped.
“I went and hid under a black truck right next to an abandoned building,” he said.
The suspect ran off in an unknown direction, the sheriff said.
The victim went to urgent care for injuries he said he got when he fell trying to run away.
He said the suspect sprayed paint on surveillance cameras. Deputies did not confirm that.
The case is currently under investigation, as authorities work to determine the identity of the suspect.
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