North Side convenience store clerk injured in afternoon robbery

YOUNGSTOWN — Police have impounded a vehicle used in a daring daylight robbery on the North Side that injured a store clerk.

The suspect, who is still at large, was witnessed getting into the vehicle after fleeing the scene on foot this afternoon.

Officers responded to a robbery in progress at J D Super Market on Belmont Avenue at 12:20 p.m., where store clerk Ahmed Dayem told police he had been robbed of nearly $300 by a man in a ski mask carrying a rifle.

After Dayem gave the man the money, the suspect fired his weapon into the floor twice, dislodging fragments of floor tile and bullet casings toward Dayem that struck him on his right arm and right leg. He sought medical attention for the wounds and later returned to work.

The robber then fled south on Belmont, where two city street department employees saw him get into a Cutlass Supreme along with two other people.

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