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By Ashley Legassic

LIQUOR STORE ROBBERY

Kamloops RCMP searching for suspect in violent liquor store robbery

Mar 19, 2020 | 1:54 PM

KAMLOOPS — A large police presence in the Sahali area of Kamloops is due to a liquor store robbery.

Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says in a news release that officers responded to a report of a robbery at U District Liquor Store on McGill Road this afternoon (March 19).

At 12:25 p.m., Shelkie says, a man entered the store and slashed the employee with a knife before stealing money from the till and running away. Officers set up a perimeter but haven’t located the suspect.

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Police are asking for the public to help them locate the suspect. He’s described as Indigenous, wearing glasses, in his 30s and has red/orange hair on top of his head. He was wearing black and tan boots.

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The employee was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.