WOLCOTT, CT (WFSB) -
Two cousins are in custody for allegedly robbing two stores in the past 48 hours.
One store was robbed in Meriden, the other on Wednesday morning in Wolcott.
The pair were identified as Angel Paradise, 26, of Southington and Michael Chapman, 33, of Plainville.
Police also said the pair may be connected to a Meriden robbery on Tuesday, in which the store clerk was also stabbed, but that remains under investigation, according to police.
The Wolcott robbery was reported at the BP Gas Station on Wolcott Road just before 8 a.m.
Wolcott police said a man wearing a stocking cap and glasses entered the store and started a conversation with the clerk before walking around the counter, pulled a knife and demanded the cash register.
The clerk used a milk crate to defend himself, as well at the lottery console to fend the man off, but was slashed in the hand during the incident.
Mohamed Aburkhis is thankful his uncle is going to be okay but says he was really shaken up.
The suspect then fled the store with the cash register and ran to a waiting brown Jeep with a woman waiting in the driver's seat.
A short time later, someone called the Waterbury Police Department to report suspicious activity in the parking lot of another gas station, this time on the corner of Meriden and Frost roads, which is about 1.5 miles from where the violent robbery occurred.
The person told Waterbury police that someone in a brown Jeep was in the parking lot, changing the marker plates on his vehicle.
That man, along with the woman inside the Jeep, fit the description of the two people involved in the gas station robbery earlier.
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