A 67-year-old clerk at a Pa. convenience store was brutally attacked, her hair ripped out, and the suspects didn’t even take anything.
The bizarrely violent incident occurred earlier this month at the GetGo convenience store in Verona, Allegheny County, Pa., as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh reports.
Local police tell KDKA a woman came into the store looking for someone and demanded information from the clerk, who was not identified in the report. Police say a man was also involved in the attack.
Police said the suspects went behind the counter to the kitchen area, and the cashier followed and asked them to leave.
“She remembers them coming in trying to describe somebody, saying we are looking for whatever,” Carin Chadwick, the victim’s niece, told KDKA.
The clerk didn’t know. And the woman, who police say was caught on surveillance cameras, began assaulting the clerk, beating her and pulling out her hair.
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At last report, the suspects remained at large. Police told KDKA the pair may have left in a tan or white Lincoln SUV. The suspects did not take anything from the store.
Police say they’re hopeful someone will recognize the suspects and report them.
Meanwhile, the victim is dealing with injuries and emotional trauma from the Jan. 9 attack, according to Chadwick.
The clerk’s injuries include bruises all over her body and headaches, KDKA reported.
“I can’t believe somebody would do that to her or to anybody,” Chadwick told KDKA. “She just keeps going through fits of crying, fits of just scared, watching her back all of the time. She shouldn’t have to live that way.”
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