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Gene Kennedy reportingFor the second time in four months robbers ambush a Smith's employee; this time stabbing the victim before taking the cash.
Smith's grocery store says it is changing its cash transfer policy after a brutal attack late last night.
Just after 11:00 last night, an employee working at the Smith's gas station located near 1174 West 600 North, went to transfer money to the main store. The robber came in from behind, stabbed the man in his lower back, and took off on foot to the northeast.
Police say, fortunately the victim was not hit in any major organs. He's expected to be released from the hospital sometime today.
But in the meantime, the search is on for whoever did this. At this point police only have vague description. There are security cameras in front of the fuel office, but neither police nor Smith's can confirm if those cameras caught the crime on tape.
What happened last night has striking similarities to an incident in January.
At a Smith's in West Valley City, two robbers armed with a shotgun ambushed a manager as he was collecting money from the gas station. West Valley Police say they never caught the robbers and, at that time, Smith's told Eyewitness News it had revised its' cash pick-up procedures.
Smith's says it will no longer transfer money the same way. Among the options the company is thinking about: Changing up the hours these employees transfer money or hiring a third-party company to do the job.
You'll hear from Smith's on the issue later today on Eyewitness News.
