A Mississippi man tried to gouge the eyes out of a truck stop clerk because he was upset about the price of gas, authorities say.

Charlie Terrell Jones, 40, has been charged with armed robbery . The Carroll County Sheriff's Office said the attack occurred on Monday just after noon.

At the 35/55 truck stop on Highway 35 in Vaiden, a town about 80 miles north of Jackson, a clerk was inside his store when a man came in and "argued with him about the price of gas." As the argument continued, according to the employee, "the suspect began to beat the clerk severely and even attempted to gouge out the clerk's eyes."

The suspect also is accused of hitting the worker on the back of the head — but that wasn't the end of things. The assailant allegedly went back to his vehicle, "returned with a gu

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