CHICAGO — A 24-year-old clerk at a Loop convenience store said he was stabbed in this head after foiling an attempted robbery.
The clerk, who gave only his first name, Zubair, was working behind the counter at the 7-Eleven at 174 N. Michigan Ave. around 7 a.m. Wednesday when a man attempted to steal some gloves, he said.
After grabbing the gloves near the entrance of the store, the man took off south down Michigan Avenue with Zubair in pursuit. The clerk confronted him near Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue and took back the gloves, but he was hit with a small knife or box cutter, he said.
"I let him go. I didn't know at the time he had stabbed me," Zubair said as he continued to serve customers while holding a paper towel to the top of his head Wednesday morning.
The attempted armed robbery occurred at 7:08 a.m. according to Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police Department spokesman.
The clerk refused medical attention, Estrada said.
Zubair, who has worked at the store for three years, said he would be getting stitches later in the day.
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