Saturday's Internet Edition, May 17, 2008.
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According to a Thomasville Police Department press release, at about 12:30 p.m. on Friday, one man entered the store for some light shopping and then exited the building. Soon another man entered the store and pointed a gun at the clerk.
Scared for her life, the clerk, Maria Lauria Fernandez gave the man a large sum of the money. She was uninjured in the incident.
“I’m glad they didn’t hurt my wife physically, but they hurt her emotionally,” said Maria’s husband Catixto Fernandez, the owner of the grocery store. “She obeyed him and the orders he gave her. I don’t know how I would have reacted in a situation like that.”
Police are describing the first man as 5 feet 9 inches to 6 feet tall, wearing blue jeans and a black in color T-shirt and thin build. The gunman is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall and 160 to 170 pounds, wearing a black ski-mask, a black short sleeve T-shirt and green camouflage plants.
The men are believed to have left in a compact-size white car which was last seen leaving the front of the store, but direction of travel is unknown.
Anyone with information about this crime can call Thomasville police at 475-4260 or Crime Stoppers of Thomasville at 476-8477.
Staff Writer Darrick Ignasiak can be reached at 472-9500, ext. 231, or ignasiak@tvilletimes.com.