Armed Stow Circle K Clerk Fires Seven Shots After Robbery Crew Rams Gas Station With Stolen Minivan at 3:30 A.M.

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STOW, OH — An armed Circle K clerk fired seven shots at a robbery crew early Monday after the group rammed a stolen minivan into the front of the gas station multiple times and started toward the store on foot, according to the Stow Police Department.

Officers were dispatched around 3:30 a.m. to a report of a robbery in progress at the Circle K at 750 Steels Corners Road. Police say the suspects arrived in two minivans, both reported stolen out of Cleveland. They used one of the vans to ram the front of the store repeatedly, destroying the glass entryway.

Then multiple suspects got out of the vans and approached the store. The clerk inside was armed. The clerk fired seven shots. The suspects fled.

Consider where that clerk stood. It was 3:30 in the morning. The glass entryway was gone. Several people who had just used a van as a battering ram were walking toward the building. Whatever barrier the front of that store offered had already been smashed. That is why the mindset question for anyone working an overnight counter has to be settled long before a vehicle pulls into the lot, not in the seconds after the glass comes down.

Police say the clerk’s rounds struck a gas pump, one of the suspect vehicles, and a post supporting the canopy over the pumps. It is unknown whether any of the suspects who escaped were hit. Every round fired lands somewhere, and darkness and adrenaline do not make anyone a better shot. Training does.

One suspect ran off on foot and was caught near Steels Corners Road and Wyoga Lake Boulevard in neighboring Cuyahoga Falls. Police identified him as Peirion D. Jackson. He was booked at the Stow City Jail and arraigned in Stow Municipal Court, where Magistrate Clark set his bond at $100,000 cash. He is being held in the Summit County Jail.

Jackson is charged with robbery, a second-degree felony, along with receiving stolen property and vandalism, both fourth-degree felonies. Police say he is currently on parole for robbery and is associated with the Heartless Felons gang.

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The charges against Jackson are allegations, and he is presumed innocent unless convicted. The release does not say whether any of the suspects were armed, and no charging decision regarding the clerk has been announced.

At least three other suspects escaped in the second stolen minivan. The white van used to smash the storefront was left behind in the parking lot. Police are still searching for a brown 1997 Chrysler Town & Country with Ohio plate GSR7033, missing its rear window glass and covered with plastic. It was last seen heading west on Steels Corners Road toward SR-8. Anyone with information is asked to call the Stow Police Department at 330-689-5700 and reference case CR26-22134.

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