A New Orleans teenage girl was met with her mother’s voice when she called 911 from a McDonalds freezer as the fast food restaurant was robbed at gunpoint.
“I was really scared because I would never imagined at my first job I would be getting robbed let alone having a gun pointed at me,” Tenia Hill, 16, told WDSU on Tuesday. “I was very worried because I didn’t want my mom to have to bury her youngest child. I could have lost my life, but she saved my life. I was very happy.”
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Prior to the phone call, an armed woman entered the McDonald’s and demanded all employees go into the freezer, KKTV reported. Hill then called 911 from inside the freezer and realized her mother, Teri Clark, was on the receiving end. Clark’s shift as an assistant operations manager had ended by the time of the incident, but she’d decided to stay late to help staff, according to the outlet. (RELATED: Vermont McDonald’s Evacuated After Employee With Handgun Throws Live Ammo On Grill, Police Say)
“Mama, please hurry up. She got a gun,” Hill told her mother, KKTV continued.
Although “in a state of shock,” Clark helped her daughter stay calm and was able to obtain enough information to get the New Orleans Police Department on the scene as soon as possible, according to WDSU.
Clark had worked at the Orleans Parish Communications District for 24 years, but she’d never received a phone call from a family member before, according to the outlet. “She is the GOAT. Greatest of all time, that is the greatest dispatcher I know,” Hill said of her mother.
No arrests have been made following the incident, the outlet reported.