These off-duty police officers are a perfect example of how couples who dine together can also protect and serve together.
Detective Chase McKeown and Officer Nicole McKeown have been married for six months after meeting each other as co-workers at the Elizabethtown Police Department.
The couple had been out on their weekly Saturday date night at Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers in Louisville, Kentucky when a man entered the restaurant wearing a mask.
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At first, the McKeowns thought the man needed help—but when they saw the cashier raise her hands in alarm, they realized the man was attempting to rob the restaurant at gunpoint.
“I saw her hands go up like this and I’m like, ‘Is he doing what I think he’s doing?’” Nicole told reporters as she recalled the evening’s events at a news conference on Tuesday. “And [Chase was] like, ‘Yeah.’”
“There was literally no question. We just looked at each other: ‘Is this what’s going on? Let’s go,’” Chase added. “We just did what we felt like we had to do.”
Security footage then shows Mr. and Mrs. McKeown drawing their firearms and advancing on the 30-year-old suspect, warning him to drop his gun.
The robber runs out the door with the McKeowns in hot pursuit. He was eventually taken into custody after the married police officers cornered him in a nearby residential yard and held him at gunpoint until backup arrived.
Since they first shared dinner at Raising Cane’s on their wedding night, Chase and Nicole have been going there every Saturday—but this week was, by far, the most eventful date since.
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