Edgecumbe's Main St Superette owner Harjinder Kaur was "shaking like a leaf" hours after she and her husband Satinder Singh had a gun pointed at them during an attempted aggravated robbery.
Kaur said the pair were seated behind the counter of the dairy they have owned since 2006 when a man with his face covered came into the store about 6.30pm last night.
"He put a bag on the counter and demanded we put something into it," Kaur said. "I don't think myself or my husband actually know what he wanted."
Singh bolted up from his chair and grabbed a bat about the same time the offender shot him with an air gun.
"He was standing in the gap of the counter and kind of crouched down a little bit before firing the gun," Kaur said.