A woman found at a Hereford gas station bleeding from a gunshot wound was actually shot during a botched robbery in Pennsylvania Friday night and had been left behind by her accomplice, Pennsylvania state police said.
The woman had been shot by the owner of a Shrewsbury, Pa., jewelry store a short time earlier during an attempted armed robbery, said the Pennsylvania State Police. Her name was withheld pending formal charges of attempted armed robbery, they said.
An employee at the Exxon station in the 300 block of Mount Carmel Road called local police shortly after 8 p.m. Friday, saying a woman was lying on the lot outside the station office bleeding from what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the back, Baltimore County Police at the Cockeysville Precinct said.
Police said the woman, thought to be in her 20s, was taken to Sinai Hospital in Northwest Baltimore. Her condition was not available Sunday night. The woman and another person had entered a jewelry store in Shrewsbury on Friday, a Pennsylvania police detective said. She pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the store employee.
The employee reportedly pulled out his own gun and fired at least one shot, hitting the woman in the back.
An investigation by Pennsylvania police and their counterparts in Baltimore County concluded the wounded woman was taken from the store by her accomplice, believed to be a male, and driven south in an unknown vehicle to Hereford and dropped off at the gas station, the detective said. The accomplice remains at large.
Detectives interviewed the woman at the hospital over the weekend, but police in York declined to reveal what, if any, information they were able to gain from her.
