7-Eleven cashier fired after shooting strangler says company told her to use "store items" for self-defense

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Joel Abbott

Nov 19, 2025

Guns are the great equalizer and the Second Amendment protects our right to carry them, but apparently 7-Eleven takes issue with that?

Dilyard recounted, 'He threatened me, and said he was gonna slice my head off, and that's when I tried to call the police. He started throwing things at me, came behind the counter. I tried to run off, but he grabbed his hands around my neck, and pushed me out of the counter space, and that's when I pulled out my gun and I shot him.'

7-Eleven says carrying guns is against company policy.

(Have they ever worked at a 7-Eleven??)

[They] said that they were going to separate from employment because of a violation of policy.

Let me translate that from commie gobbledegook for you:

"We're firing you because we think the optics of an employee shooting someone looks bad."

[Stephanie] Dilyard says she was working by herself from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. for two years.

The lesson for criminals?

  • 7-Eleven cashiers are supposed to be defenseless by order of company policy.

  • They'll let women work alone overnight in the seediest areas of town.

  • The company will fire any employees who stop you from killing them.

'This was a situation where I felt like I was put in a corner for choosing between my job and my life, and I'm always gonna choose my life.'

She doesn't want to die? Way to NOT be a team player, Stephanie!

My favorite part of this whole story is this:

Dilyard says she was supposed to use 'store items' in self-defense.

Stephanie, after using a 32-ounce Slurpie to try and ward off the insane man choking her to death:


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