"'Get down on the ground give me your phones! No sudden moves! This is a stick up.'"
Those are the chilling words Michelle Horev heard soon after 3-gun toting masked robbers broke in through the back door
of her job Saturday night at Hymie's Deli.
More than a dozen customers and employees were inside.
"It felt like a movie lets be honest," explained Horev. "Guys with masks and guns we were all on the ground."
The surreal moment became all too real when one of the gunmen shoved a shotgun in the 18-year-old cashier's face.
"When he whipped out the shotgun right in my face it was huge. It was like that long, " she elaborated using her hands.
"I was like 'Oh my gosh!This is happening right now'"
The crooks ordered everyone a the popular Main Line deli to give up their phones so they couldn't call the cops.
But Horev, a quick thinking, brave woman, had already hatched a plan for help.
In the split seconds before being ordered to the ground, she used the deli's phone to call police.
"When I saw they didn't see me I put the phone down off the hook and called 9-1-1. I know they have to report
the call even if no one is talking to them and they have to track it."
Throughout the day news of Horev's jaw dropping scare and courage spread to regular customers.
"You're very brave thanks for protecting us," smiled Simon Small.
"She's a hero she did the right thing," said friend and customer Sam Blumenthal.
Despite what she Horev calls a traumatic experience on the job Saturday night, the teen being hailed as a hero didn't even
take Sunday off.
"I love this place this.I'm not going to make them be short staffed because I was a little scared. "
No one was injured. Horev says when a car pulled up in front of the deli the crooks got spooked and ran out the back. They may have had a getaway driver. Lower Merion police say they're looking for three or four suspects.
