Thursday, 4:30 PM
Police: Store clerk beaten twice by same two teens
By Andrew Ryan, Globe Correspondent
In less than a month, an Attleboro convenience store clerk was assaulted twice during two separate robberies by the same two teenagers, police said, in attacks that included a pipe and Raid wasp and hornet spray.
The suspects, identified by police as Rhyan Vaughan, 19, and Fred Baskin, 17, were arrested Saturday shortly after the most recent beating. The teens are both scheduled to be arraigned today in Attleboro District Court, where they face charges that include two counts of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon.
On Saturday, police said the teens donned masks and entered the 7-11 on North Main Street just before 5 a.m. Police said the teens battered the clerk with a pipe and a wooden stick before running away.
Officers arrived and the clerk, who police did not identify, was taken to Sturdy Memorial Hospital. Authorities did not release his condition.
Shortly after the robbery, police said they located the two suspects in front of their home on Water Street. The suspects led officers to the pipe and the stick, which they had thrown away, according to a press release.
The teens were taken in for questioning and police said they admitted assaulting the same store clerk in a July 15 robbery. In that incident, the clerk had been sprayed in the face with Raid by two masked men, police said.
