Boston Emergency Services and a businessman with a bat helped to make an arrest in a breaking and entering in South Boston on Saturday.
Officers responded to a call around 4:29 a.m. on Saturday, and got reports from someone who heard glass breaking, which activated a store's panic alarm on Boston Street.
The witness said they saw a suspect flee on a bicycle, while another fled on foot towards Mount Vernon Street.
Officers found that the front glass door had likely been smashed from the outside, with two bricks found on a sidewalk next to the door.
Surveillance video of the incident shows the pair making an entrance into DJ's Polish Market and Deli, as the store owners' daughter hid in the back of the store after she had been baking inside.
"She heard the alarm go off," Alina Morris, owner of DJ's Polish Market and Deli, said. "She came out of the kitchen, she saw them breaking through the door."
The 32-year-old daughter pushed the panic button and called her parents, who live just three blocks away.
As her mother stayed on the phone with her, her father Daniel drove over as fast as he could with a weapon ready to go.
"I brought a baseball bat with me and I chased, I went right at him," Daniel Morris said. "I lost it, I can see where people on the news go after people, now I feel it. Now I know why, the rage, someone's going to get hurt."
As the burglars ran from the father, an EMT came to the rescue to join in on the pursuit.
Then, Boston EMS called into dispatch to say they found one suspect at the intersection of Boston Street and Mount Vernon Street,.
"My daughter screamed to EMT, 'There's the perpetrator!'" Daniel Morris said. "They chased him, which was fantastic, and they grabbed him."
Officers then found a 39-year-old Boston native named Thien Nguyen being detained by EMS on Boston Street.
"Right as they go out, one of them turns out and grabs packages of beef stroganoff mix," Morris said.
The family's business had been burglarized back in June, and video of the unsolved crime showed two thieves smashing through the same front door with cinder blocks before grabbing about $5,000 worth of cigarettes.
"In both videos, the same guys going for Newport's," Daniel Morris said."
Police found a bicycle and a trash bag filled with lottery tickets and cigarette packs on the sidewalk near the suspect, and EMS said they heard the glass breaking and saw both suspects heading their direction.
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EMS said Nguyen fell from his bicycle, allowing him to be detained.
The second suspect managed to flee on foot in the direction of Harvest Street.
Police haven't linked this crime to the previous break-in from two months ago, but the Morris family is certain that if the vigilant EMT wasn't there, there still wouldn't be any arrests.
"It's not his job to do this," Alina Morris said. "The guy was nice enough to go a little overboard."
Daniel Morris said he's now looking to repay the favor.
"We haven't met him yet," Daniel Morris said. "We'd love to meet him and buy him a sandwich."
Police were able to see surveillance video of the suspects breaking and entering into the store and removing items, which led to Nguyen's arrest for breaking and entering into a building (nighttime) and larceny.
Nguyen will be arraigned in South Boston District Court.