The incident began just before 10 p.m. when the man entered the store and demanded money from the clerk, a senior at Woodinville High School. Also in the store were four of her friends, three boys and a girl, all Woodinville High School graduates, waiting for her to close up.

According to reports, the man pulled a ski mask over his face, walked over to the group and showed them he had a pistol tucked in his pants. The clerk told him she couldn’t open the register unless he bought something. When the man turned his back to the group, one of the boys tackled him. His two friends joined in, grabbing the gun and also a knife the man pulled from his pocket.

The clerk called 911 from the back of the store while the three young men held the robber down until police arrived.

The King County Sheriff's Office said the gun was a BB gun and that the man, 25, was apparently from Burien. He was taken to the King County Jail.

The Sheriff’s Office said the man is suspected in robberies in Bothell, Woodinville and Juanita. One of those happened on Feb. 27, at about 11:12 p.m., at a movie rental business located in the Canyon Park area of Bothell. The suspect confronted two female employees in the store by displaying a firearm in the waistband of his trousers. The employees complied with the suspect’s demands. The suspect took an undetermined amount of money from the cash registers and then fled.