A rear window on an Isuzu Trooper was shattered by a gunshot Wednesday night when the owner of the Corner Stop fled from his store, which is in Sandy Springs, during an armed robbery. The Trooper belonged to the storeowner.

ANDERSON COUNTY — Wednesday marked the second night in a row that an Anderson County convenience store worker faced a brush with death at the wrong end of a pistol.

Around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday in Sandy Springs, two men walked into the Corner Stop convenience store and gas station at 5630 U.S. 76 where that street intersects with Sandy Springs Road.

The owner, who asked that his last name be withheld, said he had just placed supplies in a restroom when he walked into the presence of two black men.

Al, who managed to make it outside after the men ordered him to his coolers, said he fell on a concrete floor and injured his right elbow when he tried to rush past the men and leave his store.

“I did not know what to do,” he said. “They said nothing.”

The two men grabbed the register at the Corner Stop and followed the owner outside, firing a gunshot toward Al that shattered two windows in the rear of his Isuzu Trooper and lodged in a Dodge Caravan. Al was not injured. The men fled on foot, he said.

There is no question that the gunman was shooting at him, Al said.

“I am grateful that I am alive,” said Al, who has operated the store with his wife since September.

The store opening was late on Thursday, Al said. A new register had to be installed. Shaken, but not discouraged, Al and his wife went about their routine, working 18-hours a day to support their family, he said.

On the other side of Anderson County, a 27-year-old convenience clerk is recovering after being treated and released from the hospital for a gunshot wound he received Tuesday night. He was wounded in his leg during an armed robbery around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Stop-A-Minit 4 at 405 W. Greer St. in Honea Path, according to officials.

Susann Griffin, spokeswoman for the Anderson County Sheriff's Office, said the Pendleton gunmen “used the same method of operation that was used in Honea Path.”

“We believe (the cases) are connected,” Griffin said.