Athens, TN police search for suspects in convenience store robbery

photo Athens police are searching for two men who robbed a woman at knife-point in a convenience store.

ATHENS, Tenn. - Athens Police are searching for two men who robbed a woman at knife-point in a convenience store.

Detective Josh Rhodes says one of them entered the Marathon Store on North Congress Parkway just after 7 p.m. Sunday. The man told the clerk that he did not want to hurt her and that he just needed the money.

The suspects took off with an undisclosed amount of cash. Detective Rhodes says officers are telling other businesses to be on the look out.

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