Woman shot after she couldn’t open safe in Family Dollar armed robbery

A Family Dollar employee is expected to recover from a shooting Thursday morning during an attempted armed robbery.

About 9:15 a.m., a man entered the store at 160 Emery Highway and demanded a worker open the safe and give him money.

When the woman could not open it, the gunman shot her in the leg and ran away, according to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.

“I don’t think he got anything,” Bibb sheriff’s Lt. Randy Gonzalez said.

The robber is described as a black man, about 6 feet tall, who was wearing a camouflage jacket and dark pants.

A second man is also wanted in connection with the shooting. He is described as a slim, black man, who was wearing a black fleece hoodie and dark pants.

Authorities say the two men appeared to walk up the sidewalk together and stood outside the door of the Family Dollar for a few minutes. The man in the black fleece stood outside while the suspected shooter went inside, the release states.

The wounded worker was in stable condition at a local hospital, the release states.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 877-68-CRIME.

This story was originally published December 8, 2016 at 10:45 AM with the headline "Woman shot after she couldn’t open safe in Family Dollar armed robbery."