Employee beaten in Santa Rosa pharmacy Friday night robbery – CBS San Francisco | Today Headlines

SANTA ROSA (CBS SF) — A store worker was severely beaten in a Friday night robbery at a Santa Rosa pharmacy, police said Saturday.

According to the police report, two men entered CVS on Mendocino Avenue shortly before 8 p.m. Friday, jumped over the counter and demanded money and pills.

They then asked an employee to empty the cash registers at the front of the store. Then the thieves ordered her to open a safe at the back of the store, but she couldn’t comply. At that point, according to police, one of the suspects began hitting the woman with his fists so hard that she subsequently required emergency medical attention.

After officers arrived, the woman was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

CVS surveillance footage of robbery suspects

The suspects are described as black, in their late teens and around 5ft 9in tall.

One of the suspects was wearing a black and gray hoodie with black pants. The other wore a black hoodie with faded blue jeans. The two suspects wore masks and fled the scene with money and medicine. They were the last scene to run towards Steele Lane but no vehicles were seen to be associated with them.

Santa Rosa Police are asking anyone who witnessed the incident or has information to contact them through an online tip line at www.srcity.org/CrimeTips or call detectives at ( 707) 543-3595.

A reward of up to $2,500 is being offered by the Sonoma County Alliance Community Engagement and Safety Rewards Fund for information leading to the perpetrators’ arrest.