by Nick Beres
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - You know the saying: Don't bring a knife to a gunfight? Try telling that to three students who pulled a Samurai sword on a gun-packing robber.
"He chose the wrong guy to mug. I always said I'm not going to give money to someone who mugs me, and I'm living proof. I'm here and he's in jail," said Tyler Michaels, a teenage college student.
The person in jail is armed robbery suspect Deadrick Gaines.
Michaels said Gaines pulled a gun on him in a parking lot and then demanded they go get money from inside his apartment. Once inside, Michaels said he fought back -- successfully wrestling the gun from Gaines, but ending up with two black eyes.
"He put a beating on me. I was just after that gun. I took that beating to get that gun," said Michaels.
He then called his roommates for help and Andrew Perez rushed in and grabbed a decorative samurai sword off the wall and held it to Gaines chest until Murfreesboro police arrived.
"Very rarely do we find a suspect already caught and even rarer do we find a suspect caught and held with a sword as we did in this case," said Kyle Evans with the Murfreesboro Police Department.
Gaines was charged with aggravated assault and robbery.
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