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DEBARY, Fla. -- An employee at a Debary business talked an armed gunman out of robbing her store on Wednesday.
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The 32-year-old woman, who works at Cupid's Corner on South Charles R. Beall Boulevard, was confronted by 17-year-old Cody Conner with a loaded gun, said authorities.
Deputies said Conner demanded cash from the employee, but the woman told the teen "don't do this, it's not worth it."
The woman is a mother of four children and said she didn't want Conner to throw his life away.
After talking to Conner for about 20 minutes she was able to get him to remove the bullets from the gun.
The woman then told Conner she may have a job for him and had him fill out a job application, according to investigators.
Police said in a release that the woman and teen hugged and even smoked a cigarette together before she went next door to a convenience store to report the incident.
"And did he have a gun?" said the 911 operator on the call.
"Yes, yes sir he did have a gun," said the woman on the 911 call. "It's in his waistband."
"Did he take anything?" said the 911 operator. "He didn't get anything?"
"No," said the woman. "No I talked him out of it."
"Do you know his name?" said the 911 operator.
"I had him fill out an application," said the woman. "I told him I'd give him a job."
Deputies said they took the information on the job application and then used that to track Conner down.
The teen told deputies that the gun was actually a BB gun and that he had thrown it down near a lake. Police said they have yet to recover the weapon to verify Conner's story.
Conner told authorities that he was trying to help his grandparents pay their bills.
Conner's grandmother said he had just moved from Ohio to help his grandfather who had a heart attack.
"He's a good kid," said Wilda Harris. "I don't know what happened. My husband's having all this and he needs six surgeries, and there is no money to do nothing."
Harris said she never would have thought her grandson would consider crime to help out.
"I'm glad nobody is hurt that's all I can say," said Harris.
Conner was arrested two hours after trying to rob the business and is charged with armed robbery, said police. He was taken to the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Daytona Beach.
Conner's grandparents said he will be released to them later and will be wearing a GPS ankle monitor.
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