Clerk pepper sprayed during robbery of smoke shop in Lakeview

CHICAGO - A male store clerk was pepper sprayed during a robbery of a smoke shop Tuesday in Lakeview on the North Side.

Four Black males entered the store about 8:49 p.m. in the 3400 block of North Halsted and began attacking the store clerk, Chicago police said. The clerk was pepper sprayed during the attack.

The suspects took a cash drawer with an unknown amount of currency before they fled the store on foot, police said.

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The 46-year-old store clerk was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition, police said.

No one is in custody, police said. Area Three detectives are investigating.