CRIME Clerk shot in the back in robbery

The shooting was caught on tape by the store's surveillance camera.
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 46-year-old store clerk didn't get a chance to turn around and face a gun-toting robber at the Red and White Market on Elm Street before he fired, shooting her in the back.
The victim was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center. The .45-caliber bullet entered the back of her left shoulder and came out the front.
The store at 1451 Elm on the city's North Side was robbed around 6:40 p.m. Thanksgiving Eve.
Description of suspect
The suspect is described as a 140-pound, 5-feet-10-inch black man in his early 20s. He was wearing a gray hooded jacket with a white stripe across the front and a white wave cap over his face.
When Detective Sgt. Cindy Dellick and Patrolman Randall Miller arrived at the store -- one minute after being dispatched -- they found the clerk on the floor behind the counter. She said the gunman, after shooting her in the back, told her: "Now get up and open the cash register!"
The clerk, who had fallen to the floor when hit by the bullet, got up and went to the register but had trouble opening it. The gunman then threatened to shoot her in the foot if she didn't get it open.
The clerk managed to open the register and the robber grabbed the cash and ran out, almost knocking a customer coming in to the ground. The customer told police she didn't get a good look at him but said he ran north on Elm then west on Thornton Avenue.
Owner didn't see it
The store owner said he was in the back of the store and didn't see what happened.
Dellick and Miller took the store's VCR tape from its surveillance camera and viewed the robbery. They saw that the .45 casing had landed just left of the register by the cigar display and collected it as evidence.
The surveillance tape and casing were placed in the police evidence locker for detectives.