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A gas station clerk was upgraded to serious condition after being shot multiple times during an early Monday morning holdup in Taylorsville.

Unified Police Detective Ken Hansen said the two male suspects were Latinos, believed in their late-teens, wearing black hooded sweatshirts; one of the suspects also wore green pajama shorts and slippers.

The pair entered the Exxon station store, 2187 W. 4700 South, about 4:10 a.m., demanded and received cigarettes and an undisclosed amount of cash. At the end of the robbery, for undetermined reasons, one of the suspects shot the 21-year-old male clerk.

The clerk initially was in critical condition, but Hansen said doctors reported he had been upgraded following surgery.

UPD said the robbery suspects were not the same two young men arrested an hour later in Salt Lake City after a brief chase and foot pursuit in connection with a carjacking case.

Anyone with information on the Taylorsville robbery is asked to call UPD at 801-743-7000.

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