Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1973: Police were searching for two men who robbed an Allsup's 7-11 store in Clovis, getting away with more than $350.
"(T)wo men wearing paper sacks over their heads with eye holes cut out entered the 7-11 store and one of them ordered, 'Give me your money. Give me your money right now. Give me your money or I'm going to shoot you,'" a Clovis police report read.
Jason McCormick, the store clerk, told police the robbers had demanded cash from the registers and a change sack kept in the store only on weekends. McCormick said "only a few persons" knew about the change sack.
It was the second consecutive day McCormick had come face-to-face with a gun while working at the store at Grand and Prince streets.
The previous day McCormick told police he'd chased away a would-be robber who was armed with a blank starter pistol.
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