Two Men Use Choke Hold To Rob Tulsa Convenience Store

Police say two men choked a clerk at an east Tulsa QuikTrip store and robbed him overnight. 

Officers said the robbery occurred at the store at Highway 169 and 31st Street at about 1:30 a.m.

The clerk was alone in the store when the men attacked him. He told officers the two men had been hanging around the store for a while prior to the robbery. 

Police said the two men entered the store, one pushed the clerk then grabbed him by the neck and placed him in a choke hold. They then took money from the register and cigarettes from behind the counter and ran away. 

Officers said one robber wore a ski mask and the other a hoodie. 

Police believe the pair ran to a nearby apartment complex. 

They said the clerk was not seriously injured.