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Surveillance Video Shows GunmanTaken Down

By: Nick Ochsner
Updated: August 17, 2012
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Newly-released surveillance video is telling more of the story behind a pair of Lubbock brothers who stopped an armed robber right in his tracks.

Michael and Benjamin Ortiz were at the 7-11 on 50th and University Sunday when a man walked in with a gun and demanded cash from the cashier.

The video shows the two brothers tackling the gunman down to the floor, wrestling his gun away and holding him down until police arrive.

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