Armed thug steals cash from Kentucky Fried Chicken. But when he demands employee’s phone, brave worker refuses to back down.

Markell Hitchings — a 21-year-old cook for a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Florissant, Missouri — had an unsettling notion going through his mind when the restaurant was just getting underway for business Monday morning.

Hitchings told KSDK-TV his concerns were sparked after he noticed a male dressed in black.

‘I was never afraid at all.’

“I thought he was a regular customer just going to the bathroom and leaving,” Hitchings explained to the station.

But he recalled something else to KSDK: “I had it back in my mind that he was going to try to do something.”

Turns out Hitchings’ unsettling concerns were spot on.

“He came back there behind our counter, and it all started from there. At the time, he was asking my manager for money. She dropped