Two armed men robbed a North Myrtle Beach convenience store and fired a shotgun during the incident, according to a police report.
Officers were called at 8:20 p.m. Thursday to the Kangaroo store located at 1501 U.S. 17 North in North Myrtle Beach for a robbery, police said.
A store employee and customer were inside the business when the men, who had their faces covered, rushed into the store and ordered them to the ground, according to the report. The man with the gun struck one of the victims in the head and then fired the gun with it pointed away from the victims.
The armed men took the cash drawers from the store and several packs of cigarettes before one tried to take a wallet from one of the victims, but did not succeed, police said.
Charlene Henderson said her husband was the victim whose wallet the robber tried to take.
Henderson said when she asked her husband why he didn’t give the robber his wallet, he responded “I didn’t want them to have my ID and know where we live.”
Her husband, a tow truck driver, was on a call and when he stopped at the store for cigarettes, Henderson said.
Henderson said Friday that she knew something was wrong when her husband took too long getting home.
She said she hadn’t heard from him in two hours.
He called her later, Henderson said, and told her he was held at gunpoint and was hit in the face. She said he had recently went through two months of radiation after being diagnosed with cancer over a year ago.
On Thursday, he found out that the tumors were gone, Henderson said. Then this happened, she said.
“This was horrible. This was insane,” she said about the robbery. “I hope they catch these people.”
The robbers ran out of the store and police did not find them in the area.
On Friday evening, Henderson said she was going to take her husband to the emergency room because he was too distraught Thursday.
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