The store called the police. Incident opened approx 11 mins prior to encounter.
Responding officer to store arrived approx 6 mins prior to encounter.
Radio calls prior and subsequent to arrival provided description details.
Who called the police is immaterial, IMO, but having worked retail, I was fairly certain it was the clerk.
Not because I'd read it anywhere, but because of the simple fact I've worked retail myself. ANYONE, for that matter, knows who's butts is the sling when things turn up 'missing'.
It something they teach you on the first day - no official report = you did it. LOL!
BTW - Thanks for the link downthread to yesterday's discussion, BlueNgold!
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Courtesy PING, Qiviut.
Verification from another FReeper of the short time frame between the robbery and the altercation.