Earlier today at a local Jiffy Foods convenience store on Holbrook Dr., an attempted armed robbery occurred, leaving one suspect injured and in custody while the other escaped. The suspect, Timothy Keel, was left with several broken bones following a violent encounter with the store clerk.
Keel was arrested following the incident, and has been charged with armed robber in addition to resisting a merchant. The second suspect in the attempted robbery fled the scene immediately following the event, and has not been found.
The clerk, who was recently injured himself in a construction accident, still had his leg in a cast, and was using a cane to walk at the time of the incident.
The 2 men entered the store at 1:15 A.M., at which time they asked to use the bathroom. When the clerk went to retrieve the key, he was followed by Keel, who presented a knife. The clerk, in retaliation, swung his cane into Keel, hitting him repeatedly and subduing him.
After the second suspect fled, the clerk and a store customer tied up keel using their belts and waited for the police to arrive.
No information regarding the appearance or whereabouts of the second suspect is available at time.
The store clerk, who wished not to be named, said only that he was unharmed in the scuffle.