07/01/05 — Store keeper shot during robbery

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Store keeper shot during robbery

By News-Argus Staff
Published in News on July 1, 2005 1:45 PM

A Goldsboro store keeper was listed in stable condition this morning at Wayne Memorial Hospital with gunshot wounds sustained during an armed robbery Thursday morning at his store.

Cesar Lamar was running the Lamar Enterprises store at 706 S. George St. with several other people in the store when a black man entered carrying a pistol and robbed the store. Witnesses told Goldsboro police the man fled in an unknown direction by unknown means, according to the report.

The robbery was reported around 11:15 a.m. Thursday, and the investigation is continuing.

The man, who was wearing a black mask, is described as 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 180 pounds, with a medium build and wearing blue shirt and pants.

Anyone with information about this robbery is asked to call Goldsboro Police Investigator Chad Calloway at 580-4216 or Crime Stoppers at 735-2255.