Investigators in Grant County hope that the public will be able to help them identify two men who tried to hold up a gas station Thursday night.
They responded to reports of the armed robbery at the Marathon on Owenton Road in Corinth just before 8:00 p.m. last night.
“She walked back in the store and told the male patron and the male employee thought they were fixin’ to get robbed,” said Deputy Scott Conrad with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office. “At that time, the two males walked outside and confronted the individual where the gun was brandished.”
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As the masked man held a gun in the face of the male employee, the woman who worked there bolted the doors closed.
“After she locked the door, one of the suspects came up and attempted to open the door, but they were locked. At that time that male subject, according to the witnesses statements, said, ‘common let’s go,’ and they both ran off,” said Conrad.
Gray Capito, a restaurant owner down the road from the Marathon, says it is not the first time businesses along Owenton Road have been targeted.
He says it is very unnerving to see someone have a pistol stuck in their face.
Although the robbers were scared off this time and nobody was hurt, deputies say the best thing to do is cooperate whenever a weapon is involved.
“Just do what they ask then call us,” said Conrad. “A couple hundred dollars isn’t worth someone’s life.”
Witnesses say the suspects fled in a silver car that had a front left marker light out.
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