Area law enforcement are currently focusing their search on a culvert in Goose Run near the Marietta College campus on Fourth and Butler streets after an armed robbery at the Salvation Army Thrift Store, 313 Greene St., around 8:35 a.m. today.
According to scanner traffic, a man wearing a black ski mask brandished a pistol and a knife after entering the store; an employee was cut and the man fled on foot toward Third Street.
It was not immediately known how severe the injury to the employee was.
The man was described as being a white male, about 30 years old, 5-foot 9-inches tall, wearing blue jeans, a long-sleeved, dark green shirt and white tennis shoes.
A man who was stopped on Seventh Street carrying a green shirt was questioned by police but turned out not to be the suspect.
All area police agencies have been notified and are assisting.
Marietta College is on lockdown in response to the incident. Tom Perry, director of college relations, said classes are not in session but a few students have already returned to campus.
Anyone with any information about the crime or the location of the suspect should call 911.
More information will be posted as it becomes available.
