Clerk pistol-whipped in holdup of Knoxville pizza shop
By Tribune-Review
Published: Sunday, December 30, 2012, 11:42 p.m.
Updated: Sunday, December 30, 2012
The clerk of a Knoxville pizza shop was taken to a hospital on Sunday night on being pistol-whipped in a robbery, authorities said.
Allegheny County 911 dispatchers said the robbery call came in about 8 p.m. from Aprimo Pizza in the 500 block of Brownsville Road.
The clerk, a 21-year-old woman, suffered a head injury.
A description of the suspect was not immediately available. Pittsburgh police K-9 units were in the area attempting to track the robber.
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