SOWEGA Roundup: Tifton clerk shot during robbery
Store clerk shot during Tifton Convenience Store robbery
TIFTON, Ga. — A convenience store clerk in Tifton was shot in the chest during a robbery last week, police officials say.
The Tifton Gazette reports that police detective Lee Dunston says that three men, two of which were armed, entered Jay’s Food Mart at 10 Sandra Drive Wednesday evening. The first suspect came into the store, immediately jumped onto the counter and shot the female clerk one time in the chest. He then ran out of the store, Dunston said.
The male clerk came out of a back room and attempted to pursue the suspect. He was confronted at the door of the store by the two other suspects. He was forced back inside the store at gunpoint and robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash, the paper reports.
Despite the injury, the clerk is does not appear life-threatening.
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TIFTON, Ga.
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