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Police investigating two Circle K robberies

TEGA CAY, S.C. — Police are investigating robberies at two Circle Ks that happened just after midnight Friday.

Channel 9 is asking police whether they are connected.

Tega Cay police are searching for a man they say robbed a store clerk at gunpoint.

The holdup happened at the Circle K on West Highway 160.

The clerk said a black man wearing a mask got away with an unknown amount of cash.

He left in a light-colored four-door sedan.

Just about an hour and a half later, 11 miles away, another Circle K was robbed in southwest Charlotte.

Police said the person took off on foot after taking cash from the store on Sharon Road West off South Boulevard.

No one was hurt.