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Okotoks gas station robbery: clerk stabbed

September 23, 2013 12:08 PM

Calgary: Organization authorities at Fas Gas Plus will be auditing their efforts to establish safety after two corner store agents were harmed in two divide rough burglaries in a matter of weeks.

 

"We require a little more data to figure out what's happened and how we have to be included," said Tom Mcmillan, representative with Parkland Fuel Corporation, which possesses Fas Gas Plus.

 

"In light of the two episodes, we will be investigating (our practices) and we will make updates if indispensible.

 

"The inquiry is, are these two separated episodes or is it true that this is a developing pattern? We don't have the response to that at this moment."

 

The most recent episode occurred at something like 8 PM Friday at the Northridge Drive Fas Gas area in Okotoks.

 

Police say a man driving a dark pickup truck pulled up to the pumps and topped off. He then strolled into the store and strolled around before approaching the agent and wounding him once in the stomach.

 

The man then took off in his truck heading west. The agent was taken to Foothills Hospital.

 

The suspect is depicted as a 25 to 30-year-old Caucasian man, five-foot-seven to five-foot-eight, with a medium assemble, dull wavy hair, and a short full confronted whiskers. He was wearing a tan hoodie around then.

 

The suspect's vehicle is a dark pickup truck, perhaps a Chevrolet Sierra.

 

Police say a gold auto was leaving the Fas Gas at around the range of 7:50 PM heading south on Northridge Drive that night and urges that driver, or any individual who saw or has data about the occurrence to contact RCMP or Crime Stoppers.

 

Mcmillan said police will be investigating reconnaissance footage.

 

Prior this month, a 30-year-old man was accused of endeavored homicide after agent Jaysen Arancon Reyes was shot in the face with a shotgun throughout a theft at a Fas Gas in Red Deer.

 

The man entered the West Park Fas Gas around 11:20 PM on Sept. 11, pointed a sawed-off shotgun and requested cash. The point when Reyes, 26, consented, the man let go a round, striking the representative in the face and hand, police said.

 

Reyes was carried to a Calgary doctor's facility in discriminating however stable condition and had experienced more than one surgery.

 

The suspect left the scene on bike and transformed himself into the Blackfalds RCMP separation two days after the fact.

 

Jeffrey Lyle Geary, of no settled address in Red Deer, was accused of one tally each of endeavored homicide, burglary with a precluded gun, ownership of a weapon for a hazardous reason, ownership of a stacked restricted gun and ownership of a stolen disallowed gun.

 

"Two fierce episodes in as numerous weeks is truly out of the standard," Mcmillan said. "We are pretty shaken up and our hearts are going out to both victimized people. There's a feeling of disillusionment about the savagery going ahead in these groups. It's unsatisfactory."

 

The organization is as of now directing an examination into the first occurrence and will start an alternate into the second case, Mcmillan included.

 

Fas Gas and Parkland Fuel Corporation have set up a trust subsidize at Scotiabank to raise cash to help Reyes and will take care of the expenses of carrying his family from the Phillipines.

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