LPD: Clerk taken to hospital after robbery at Family Dollar

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Police say a store clerk had to be taken to the hospital after the family dollar she worked at on Race Street was robbed Saturday morning.

According to police, a man walked in, implied he had a weapon and demanded money around 10 a.m. Saturday.

He fled the scene, but officers say the clerk was so shook up, she was having chest pains and was taken by ambulance to University of Kentucky hospital.

Police are investigating.