An off-duty D.C. firefighter, who was shot and seriously wounded Saturday night during an armed robbery on Capitol Hill, tells WTOP that his instinct was to “fight back.”

Gary “Zeek” Dziekan was walking home from a party at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday near the 200 block of 8th Street in Northeast, when a teen wearing a surgical mask approached him with a gun.

“I kind of got that sixth sense that something bad was about to happen,” Dziekan said in an interview with WTOP anchor Nick Iannelli. The teen demanded Dziekan’s cellphone and told the firefighter to give him a password to an app.

When Dziekan said he didn’t know the password, the teen put the gun to Dziekan’s chest, and, in a split-second decision, the firefighter fought back. He grabbed “the barrel of the gun” and swung the teen a

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