HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Authorities say a store clerk is alive after being shot multiple times during a robbery in southeast Houston on Wednesday.

The Houston Police Department said the shooting happened at about 1:30 a.m. outside a convenience store on Barberry Drive near Scott Street.

According to HPD Lt. R. Willkens, the store clerk was closing up for the night, shutting panels on the front of the store, when two men approached him in ski masks.

Willkens said the clerk was carrying a bag of money that the suspects were after.

"He (the clerk) ended up getting shot once initially in the very front of the store, and he took off running around the side -- collapsed on the side of the store. The bad guys got back over him and started fighting to get the bag, got the bag, and shot him s

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