Report: Chester store clerk, boyfriend robbed at knifepoint

Chester County sheriff’s deputies are searching for the man who robbed a convenience store clerk and her boyfriend at knifepoint this weekend.

The robbery happened about 10 p.m. Friday at the Pantry Express on the J.A. Cochran Bypass, according to a sheriff’s report released Monday. The 28-year-old clerk told deputies her boyfriend was sitting in their vehicle in front of the store when she went outside to put her backpack in the car.

That’s when an unknown man came from the side of the store with a knife and forced the clerk and her boyfriend into the store, deputies say. The suspect, who was wearing a black mask, cut her boyfriend’s finger with the knife “because he was not moving fast enough.”

Inside the store, the suspect demanded “all the money” in the store. After receiving the cash, he fled the gas station with $86 from the store and the victim’s backpack, which contained about $375, the report states. Paramedics tended to the male victim’s hand injury.

Deputies tried unsuccessfully to locate the suspect.

This story was originally published November 9, 2015 at 12:25 PM with the headline "Report: Chester store clerk, boyfriend robbed at knifepoint."