A PACK, NOT A HERD:

Three men armed with guns robbed the store shortly after midnight and stole wallets and purses belonging to customers, said Lt. Dean Sullivan, a Fort Worth police spokesman.

The man, whom police didn’t identify because he is a witness, saw two of the men walking around nervously before they entered the store. The witness said he called 911 when one of the men pulled out a gun and fired as he walked into the store.

About 20 seconds later, the witness’s wife tried to call him from her cellphone inside the store. But he never got to talk to her.

“I just heard her saying, ‘There is nothing in my purse,’ ” he recalled. “And there was a ‘pow.’ The phone went dead.”

The man, who has a concealed handgun license, sprang into action. He walked into the store with his .45-caliber pistol under his shirt.

“I really thought I’d find her in the store shopping and get her out the back door,” he said. “That was my intention. … I had no intention of confronting these armed bandits.”

But in the store, one of the robbers pointed the gun at the man. The man then fired twice. The robber ran away, and it’s unknown whether he returned fire, Lt. Sullivan said. Outside the store, the retired man fired again.

Lt. Sullivan said Rayshaun Johnson was possibly hit during the robbery. Mr. Johnson, 17, was injured on his backside and foot. He was dropped off in the parking lot of Huguley Memorial Medical Center in Fort Worth.

Good for him.