Three injured during robbery in Ladyville

Two men are hospitalized tonight after they were shot by robbers posing as customers at the Sand Hill Gas Station located at mile sixteen and a half on the Northern Highway. Shortly before seven Wednesday night, two armed bandits wearing beanie caps entered the gas station and held up twenty-nine year old Jing Wang and her father fifty-six year old Bow Tang Wang. Jing reported that while she and her father were attending to three male customers when the two young men entered the store. One asked for a bottle of Campari and while Bow was serving him, the other pulled out a black handgun and pointed it at him. Jing says she immediately went to the back of the building to retrieve their licensed twelve gauge shotgun and that she heard several shots being fired. When she returned to the front desk, she found her father bleeding from a wound above his right eye. Two customers were also injured in the attempted robbery. Calbert Flowers, who carries the same name as the officer in charge of the Ladyville police station, was wounded in the right and left arm and Andrew Baptist was grazed on the left part of his upper back. The robbers fled the store empty-handed. Wang and Flowers were transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they are in stable condition.