COLUMBUS — A gas station clerk received minor injuries early Saturday morning after a struggle over her car keys with a suspect armed with a knife.
At approximately 4:20 a.m., Columbus Police Department officers were dispatched to the Get-n-Go gas station located at 3545 W. County Road 450S in Columbus.
Officers determined that the gas station clerk was grabbed outside the store by the suspect, Josey R. Keesling, 29, of Noblesville, and robbed of her car keys with a knife. The clerk received cuts and lacerations during a struggle with Keesling, according to a CPD press release.
Keesling was remanded on preliminary charges of robbery with a deadly weapon, battery with serious bodily injury, auto theft, intimidation and resisting law enforcement with a vehicle.
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