Business owner attacked in Christmas Store

HUBBARD — A 60-year-old city business owner is recovering from a weekend robbery and attack that sent her to the hospital for stitches.

Police were called to The Christmas Store at 888 W. Liberty St. just after noon Sunday to investigate a robbery at the store.

Once at the store, officers found blood on the sidewalk outside the business and at the entrance, dollar bills on the ground near the entrance doors and the 60-year-old owner being treated by paramedics.

Sgt. James Taafe said the woman was ultimately sent to the hospital for stitches to her head.

Police reported that the woman had been working at the store alone when a man came into the business and demanded money. The man, police were told, placed his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun and told the woman, “Don’t make me hurt you.”

The thief took about $170 from the cash register and ordered the woman to a back room, but she refused to go. He then tried to leave the store, but the owner tried to follow the man.

He pushed her back into the store, where she fell into some glass shelves and was cut on the forehead.

The man was seen by several witnesses leaving the store. No arrest has been made.