Police are investigating after a man allegedly attempted to rob a gas station in the city of Welland last Monday night with a knife.
Officers responded to a call at an Esso Gas station at 9 p.m. at 1000 Ontario Road where they learned that a robbery had occurred earlier that evening.
Investigators learned the robbery took place just before 6:30 p.m. when a man had allegedly brandished a knife at an employee demanding cash from the register.
The suspect had allegedly left the store, after the employee refused.
Police are looking for a white man with gray or black hair and is described to have been wearing a green shirt pulled over his head and grey slip-on shoes. The man was also described to have been carrying a yellow reusable grocery bag.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.
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