“He said ‘give me money, give me money.’ I woke up that time,” Chaudry told jurors.

He looked up to see a man in a hooded sweatshirt was pointing a gun at the other worker and telling him to hand over the cash. The robber had his face covered, he said.

“He didn’t see me before. When he saw me, he pointed the gun to me and said ‘don’t move,’” Chaudry said.

He said the gunman then turned his attention back to the clerk and told him to empty a second cash register, and that’s when Chaudry reached for the semi-automatic and loaded it.

The robber looked back and Chaudry and started firing his 9mm when he realized the manager had moved.

“What did you do when he shot at you?” Assistant Black Hawk Count Attorney Brad Walz asked Chaudry.

“I just sat down,” Chaudry said.

“What happened next?” Walz said.

“Next then, I stood up and at that moment, I fired,” the manager said. He sat down again, and the gunman was gone when emerged again.

Walz said the robber had been hit and bolted out the door, pushing the glass door open as he left.