Video shows Zip Trip bear spray assault
Spokane police are looking for a man who assaulted a Zip Trip store clerk with bear spray early Sunday morning.
Surveillance video shows a masked man in a hooded, brown and tannish plaid jacket spray the cashier in the face at 2:47 a.m. Police say he entered and attacked after another man entered the store at 1523 W. 10
th Ave. and asked for cigarettes.That man is pictured at the end of the video wearing a striped hooded sweatshirt and red hat.
The men both ran from the store after the clerk was assaulted. The man in the striped hooded sweatshirt is described as 5-foot-6 with a medium building, brown hair mustache and beard. The assailant is about 5-foot-10 with a white mask and plaid jacket, police said.
Anyone with information on the men is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or submit tips online.