MEMPHIS, Tenn. —Memphis police are investigating after someone reportedly tried to rob a Mapco gas station early Tuesday morning.
According to police the suspect entered the gas station on Raleigh Millington Road and St. Elmo around 5:30 a.m. and tried to rob the employees inside. Someone inside the store saw what was going on and exchanged gunfire with the suspect, police told WREG.
Several minutes later a man fitting the suspect’s description showed up at the Circle K with a gunshot wound. That man told responding officers he was driving down the street when his car was shot at by persons unknown.
Authorities said his car did not have any bullet holes in it and the vehicle matched the description of the getaway car.
We talked to customers at the gas station next to the Mapco where clerks work behind bullet proof glass. They tell us the Mapco has been robbed before.
“It’s pitiful. How do you get shot at one store and you go to another store trying to get help,” a customer said.
Customers say it’s sad how employees have to worry about being held up on the job. And say they should be able to protect themselves.
The suspect has not been identified at this time.
