FRESNO, Calif. -- A Northern California gas station clerk is being called a hero after springing into action when a woman, shaking with fear, pleaded for help to hide her from kidnappers.
Surveillance video shows the woman walking into the gas station and talking to the clerk, Savannah Pritchet, inside.
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Pritchet then locked the store's front door and walked the woman toward the restroom, locking her inside and giving her a cell phone to call 911. Pritchet then let the alleged kidnappers into the store.
"I knew that if I left the door locked they would have caught on to something and probably took off. So I went back up there and I unlocked the door. They seriously had no idea that I knew anything," Pritchet said.
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Minutes later, officers stormed in with guns drawn and arrested 18-year-old Anthony Sandoval and eventually, three juvenile suspects.
The suspects told police that the victim had been kidnapped a day earlier in Fresno and was sexually assaulted.
The woman is now home safe with her family.