WEST JORDAN — The search continued Tuesday for a man who police say ran over a store clerk after robbing the clerk’s store.

Monday night, an employee at Smokey’s Discount Cigarettes, 1597 W. 9000 South, tried to stop a man who had stolen something from the store, according to West Jordan police. When the clerk confronted the man in the parking lot, he was hit by his fleeing car.

The clerk was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. Police were looking Tuesday for a white man in his 20s with shaggy hair who was last seen wearing a tie dye-shirt, white pants, a black jacket and a black hat and driving a red car.

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Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call police at 801-840-4000.

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