Yesterday afternoon, a Bronx jewelry store owner attended to a well-dressed man and woman who came into his Arthur Avenue store. But when they put a gun to his head and told him to open the safe, Anthony Spinelli grabbed his licensed gun and fired at the couple, as well as the suspected lookout who was outside the store. WABC 7 asked how Spinelli was doing hours after the incident, and the 49-year-old said, "Nobody wants to be in that position... I'm fine, thank you. I can't wait to get home."

The man and woman got away, but the suspected lookout was hit. A witness told WABC 7, "'He was saying chill, chill, chill, not to shoot him, but he opened fire, shot him twice in the legs." Another neighboring store owner said, "I heard, 'Pow! Pow!' - two shots. Then I heard them running out of the store." The Daily News has more details:

The vigilante jeweler continued to give chase to the pair, who dropped the briefcase of loot before hopping into their getaway ride - a gold Cadillac Escalade, sources said.

But the woman went back for the satchel and even got into a tussle with Spinelli, a witness said.

"The bag opened and a bunch of watches fell out," a witness said in Spanish. "The girl got the bag and ran back toward the car."

Other store owners helped Spinelli, with one telling the Post, "I just see these people running out of the jewelry store with stuff that didn’t belong to them... This is our neighborhood and we protect our neighborhood. Our guard was off because right now there should be three dead people on the street."

A 62-year-old lifelong resident expressed his shock at the crime on the street with a mobbed up past, telling the NY Times, "In the old days, this never would have happened — on Arthur Avenue, are you kidding me? In the old days, Spinelli wouldn’t have needed no gun. The whole neighborhood would have tackled them. It wasn’t a mob thing, it was a family thing." And a 100-year-old employee at Mario's restaurant said, "Today, everyone is slacking and minding their own business. Years ago, the street was well protected. You had guys playing cards in social clubs all night, and if they saw anyone they didn’t recognize, they’d ask him, ‘What are you doing here?'"

In 2009, a Harlem store owner fired on four would-be robbers, killing two of them. Charles "Gus" Augusto said, "I don't feel like a hero. I would have felt like a hero if I could have talked that kid into going home."