Robbers Fire Shots At 7-Eleven Clerk, Another Robbed An Hour Later

DENVER (CBS4) – Police in Denver are investigating two convenience store robberies that occurred in the early hours of Thursday.

According to police, two people entered the 7-Eleven located at Colorado Boulevard and East 16th Avenue at about 3:55 a.m. and robbed the store at gunpoint. The suspects fired two shots at a clerk but missed.

Police said less than an hour later two robbers then hit another 7-Eleven just three miles away at Yosemite Street and East 11th Avenue.

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