Clerk who witnesses shooting shares story

ROCK HILL, S.C. -- The clerk who was working at a check cashing store on the day of a shooting and robbery is back on the job and talked to WCNC about her ordeal.

The woman asked that we only identify her as Marsha.

Wednesday was Marsha's first full day back to work at the Cash on the Spot. In her nine years behind the counter there, she's never had a gun pointed at her until last Thursday. She thought the man filling out Western Union forms in the surveillance video seemed so busy that when she saw the gun, she thought it was a joke.

But then Marsha saw him shoot the customer at the counter in the head. Marsha says he shot Ida Lord before he even asked for money. The suspect then he tried to shoot Marsha by squeezing the gun through the slot below the bulletproof glass, but it was too tight.

Marsha ducked under a desk, called 9-1-1 and screamed for the woman at the business next door to help.

When police arrested Phillip Watts Jr. this week, Marsha says it was a huge relief. She just wishes the clerks at the fish market in Rock Hill and the gas station in Fort Mill where similar incidents have occurred had the same bulletproof glass protection that of glass she credits with saving her life.