Utah store clerk run over by suspected shoplifter

A Utah store clerk was critically injured Monday when he was run over by a car driven by a suspected shoplifter.

According to West Jordan police, the clerk at Smokeys Discount Cigarettes at 1597 W. 9000 South followed a man he believed had stolen something from the store. The clerk confronted the man in the parking lot, and the two began to fight. The man got in his car and ran over the clerk, who was transported to a hospital in critical condition.

The suspected shoplifter is described as a white man in his 20s with shaggy hair. He was wearing a tie-dyed shirt, black jacket, white pants, a black hat and black face mask, and he was driving a red passenger car.

Anyone with information about the man is asked to call the West Jordan Police Department at 801-840-4000.