HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Police are searching for two suspects after a convenience store clerk was shot during an armed robbery early Friday morning in Huntersville.
[PHOTOS: Store clerk shot during robbery inside Huntersville 7-Eleven]
Authorities said that around 4 a.m., two people walked into the 7-Eleven on Mount Holly-Huntersville Road near W.T. Harris Boulevard and robbed the store clerk and a customer at gunpoint.
That store clerk was taken to the hospital but will be OK.
Investigators told Channel 9 that one of the robbers then shot the clerk in the leg before leaving.
The manager of the store told Channel 9 that the clerk is a grandfather in his late 60s.
No suspect description has been released.
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