Voice-Activated Phone Thwarts Guman's Restaurant Robbery

A man with a gun ordered workers at a Wendy's restaurant not to answer the phone. But one worker's voice-activated headset didn't listen.

It all started when Keith Sturgill entered a Wendy's restaurant and held employees at gunpoint while waiting for a safe equipped with a timer to be opened.

When the restaurant's phone and an employee's cell phone both started ringing, Sturgill yelled that he would shoot if anyone answered. But unknown to him, his screams did exactly that -- activated the employee's voice-activated headset.

The caller, a friend working at a bank down the street, heard the robber screaming in the background and called police.

Within minutes, officers surrounded the Wendy's, and Sturgill came outside with his gun pointed to an employee's head. Police talked him into letting the employee go, and he surrendered a short time later -- not before he rammed the gun into his own forehead until he bled.

The 35-year-old is now being held in jail on charges of aggravated robbery and kidnapping.

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