Maryland police are looking for a woman who allegedly shot a gas station convenience store worker during an attempted robbery over the weekend.
The unidentified woman took out a pistol and shot the Shell station convenience store clerk during an attempted robbery, cops said. Howard County Police Surveillance footage inside the store shows the woman calmly walking up to the counter at a Shell station in Columbia around 7:43 p.m. on April 17 and producing a silver revolver from her purse, which she aims at the clerk off-screen while appearing to order the employee to open the cash register.
She struck the man once, leaving him in serious condition before fleeing the store. Howard County Police She can be seen firing a single shot in the video, but police said she fired multiple times and struck the clerk, leaving him in serious condition before fleeing the scene.
The victim is currently recovering at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Cops described the suspect as a black woman wearing a black dress and slide sandals, and the Howard County Police Department is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to her arrest.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 410-313-STOP or to send an email to HCPDcrimetips@howardcountymd.gov.
