Gas Station Clerk Stabbed By Serial Robber: 'We Just Started Fighting'
DENVER (CBS4) - The serial gas station robber who recently stabbed a clerk has hit five different convenience stores since April 19.
Two gas stations near Colorado Boulevard and East Colfax Avenue, a Conoco and 7-11, were targeted by the suspect over the weekend. In both cases, he may have been checking the store out at least a half an hour before robbing it.
In the first of the attacks, Zerisenay Meharna noticed a man looking for cellphone accessories in his gas station on Colfax Avenue and Quebec Street. When he approached to assist the man, he was attacked.
"He was already coming at me, and I didn't know what he had or what he wanted, so we just started fighting," said Meharna of the April 19 attack.
He was slashed multiple times and still has wounds on his arms and his head where the suspect stabbed him with a small knife.
"I didn't have time to get scared, I just reacted. Because I didn't know what was going on, it was just confusion really," Meharna said.
The suspect took the money in the register and ran out. Meharna hit the suspect in the head with a stapler, leaving a welt on his forehead.
Four of the five robberies police are investigating have taken place at convenience stores at gas stations on Colfax Avenue. The suspect has gotten away with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The suspect is a 40-year-old white man with short brown hair and reddish facial hair. He was described as being 5-foot-11.
He is wanted for aggravated robbery, and may face charges for assault with a deadly weapon.
