Men stab store clerk, take cigarettes, cash

Police were searching for two men who robbed a downtown 7-Eleven store early Sunday, grabbing cash and cigarettes and leaving a clerk with stab wounds to his back.
About 2 a.m. Sunday, a heavyset black man and a thin white man in their early 20s walked into the convenience store at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Juniper Street. The black man immediately started struggling with the clerk while the white man started grabbing cigarettes, said Sgt. Craig Miller of the Escondido Police Department.
During the struggle, the clerk was stabbed several times in the back. The black man then grabbed cash from the register and the pair fled, Miller said.
The clerk was taken to a local hospital with injures Miller described as non-life threatening.
The white suspect was about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and wearing a gray sweatshirt and a black-and-white knit cap with earflaps. The black suspect was 6 feet to 6 feet, 4 inches tall with a shaved head wearing a dark-blue Chargers jacket with a lightning bolt on the back, an oversized white T-shirt and dark jeans, Miller said