UPDATE: One employee shot during EZ Mart robbery

LITTLE ROCK, AR – Three suspects are at large and one person is in the hospital after a convenience store was robbed at gunpoint Friday night.

The robbery happened around 9:30pm at the EZ Mart located at 2711 West Markham. According to reports, two suspects entered the business, waving their guns. One suspect struck an employee in the back of the head with a semi-automatic pistol while the second suspect shot another employee twice in the foot. After struggling with the store’s safe and fleeing the scene, the suspects left in a waiting vehicle which was driven by a third suspect. Police say the getaway vehicle was later found at the intersection of Daisy Bates and Chester streets, crashed into a parked vehicle.

Police were looking for the suspects Friday night. Police say that one was wearing a black ski mask; the other was possibly wearing a white shirt on his head.

Anyone with information about the robbery and shooting is asked to call the police.