Investigator describes three shots fired during convenience store robbery

Man accused of $10,000 robbery

Gainesville Police Department Detective Erin Escalante testifies Thursday morning in Hall County Magistrate Court during a committal hearing for Eric Newsome. Newsome is accused of fighting with a clerk and firing off a couple of rounds amid an alleged armed robbery at the Quick Serve on Athens Street on Oct. 7.

1028Newsome2 — Gainesville Police Department Detective Erin Escalante testifies Thursday morning in Hall County Magistrate Court during a committal hearing for Eric Newsome. Newsome is accused of fighting with a clerk and firing off a couple of rounds amid an alleged armed robbery at the Quick Serve on Athens Street on Oct. 7.

A Gainesville man told a convenience store employee “her life was going to end” while trying to rob the business, a police investigator testified Thursday. Eric Kawan Newsome, 37, appeared in Magistrate Court to answer to charges of armed robbery and aggravated assault. Gainesville Police investigator Erin Escalante testified Thursday about responding Oct. 7 to the Athens Street Quik Serve.