7-Eleven Clerk on Baltimore Drive Pistol-Whipped During Robbery

A 7-Eleven clerk was struck in the face with a handgun Tuesday morning during a robbery of the store at 5650 Baltimore Drive by two armed men, police said.

The clerk, a La Mesan in his mid-20s, suffered minor injures but declined medical attention, according to the La Mesa Police Department.

The assailants, both armed with semiautomatic handguns, entered the convenience store near Lake Murray Boulevard about 2:30 a.m. and demanded the lone clerk open the cash register,

“When the clerk didn’t move fast enough, one suspect hit the clerk in the face with his handgun,” police said. “One of the suspects took an undisclosed amount of money from the register while the other took Lotto tickets. The suspects fled on foot in an unknown direction.”

Emrik Sehoea of La Mesa, another store clerk, said later Tuesday morning that the male clerk stayed for several hours after the injury. The store owner came in to help shortly after the robbery, he said.

Sehoea said the store lost $105 in cash and $260 in Lotto tickets.  The California Lotter has been notified, he said, and the store provided surveillance video to La Mesa police—who now are looking for suspects in three armed robberies since Monday.

An Arizona boy suffered a grazing bullet wound near the Chico Club on El Cajon Boulevard early Monday morning during one robbery, and a Motel 6 on Alvarado Road was robbed at gunpoint Monday night, police said.

In the 7-Eleven incident, one robber was described as a black male, 20-25 years old, 6 feet to 6-2 tall, with a medium build and wearing a black pullover hooded sweatshirt with the hood closed around his face and a long white shirt hanging down under a sweatshirt. He wore dark jeans, and was armed with a black colored handgun.

The second robber was described as a black male, 20-25 years old, 6-0 to 6-2, medium build and wearing a black pullover hooded sweatshirt with “San Diego” in white letters on the chest, long white shirt hanging down under sweatshirt and dark jeans, armed with a black colored handgun.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to call the La Mesa Police Department at 619-667-1400. Or you may also call Crime Stoppers’ anonymous toll-free tip line 888-580-TIPS (or sdcrimestoppers.com). You can remain anonymous, and be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest in this case.