Clerk gunned down in conv­enience store shooting

Police say suspects walked up, shot clerk in chest

SAN ANTONIO – A clerk is in critical condition after two men gunned him down outside a Fredericksburg Rd. store Saturday night.

Police say the clerk had gone outside the store in the 1700 block of Fredericksburg around 9 p.m. to smoke a cigarette when the men walked up and shot him twice in the chest.

EMS transported the victim to University Hospital for treatment of those gunshots wounds.

Police are now searching the area near Fredericksburg and Zarzamora for the shooters.

They say a man pumping gas outside the Golden Food Mart witnessed the shooting, and told officers the two Hispanic men took off down Zarzamora after firing the shots.