Security guard shoots would-be robber at Melbourne Internet cafe

MELBOURNE —

A security guard shot a would-be robber at a Brevard County Internet cafe, police said early Tuesday morning.

Mark Spivey was taken to the hospital, but two others suspects remain on the run.

Melbourne police responded to reports of an armed robbery at the Internet cafe on the 3200 block of Babcock Street, not far from the Florida Institute of Technology campus.

Detectives said approximately 20 to 30 people were inside the Internet cafe around 4 a.m. Tuesday, when three gunmen stormed in and tried to rob the place.

The men, who covered their faces with T-shirts, were confronted by an armed security guard at the entrance.

Detectives said the guard fired his gun, striking Spivey, 18, several times.

All three men took off on foot, but Spivey dropped his own gun in the cafe’s entryway and collapsed just a few yards from the scene, where he was arrested.

Paul Gmatti, who goes to the arcade every day, said he hadn’t heard what had happened just a few hours before he arrived later Tuesday morning.

“Yeah it’s scary,” said Gmatti. “They could come back.”

“I heard the shots. I heard the security guard say back up off him and he just unloaded on him,” said witness Craig Jackson.

“I stood up on the machine and saw the security guard with the gun out — shooting away,” said witness Anne Summers.

Spivey was taken to a Holmes Regional Medical Center where his condition is unknown.

Police said they are looking over surveillance video from the Internet cafe to try and track down the other two suspects, who escaped.

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