LORAIN — Lorain police are looking for a man who robbed a Dairy Mart at gunpoint this morning and assaulted the clerk.

Officers were called to the convenience store at West 28th Street and Broadway at 5:30 this morning, according to a police report.

The clerk told police he was in a back room when a man he recognized as a customer of the store for at least the four years he’d worked there entered the store and walked to the beer cooler.

When the clerk came out of the back room to see the man holding a silver revolver, the report said. The man then began yelling and running at him. The robber jumped over the counter and attacked him, striking him in the head with the barrel of the gun and leaving a lump, the clerk said.

The clerk said the man pulled him to the register by his hood and demanded he open the drawer, the report said.

The man emptied the register and fled, making off with $331.

Police described the man as a black male about 6 feet tall with a thin build. He was wearing half a face mask, a dark hooded sweatshirt, dark pants and white gloves.

The clerk said he recognized the man as a customer based on his voice, eyes and nose and identified him by his street name, the report said.

Police searched area but did not find the man.

Police took a VHS tape of the robbery as evidence and searched for fingerprints but could not recover any. The owner of Dairy Mart is processing four other video cameras, according to the report.

ELYRIA — A Lorain man was arrested after police say he stole a car, fled police and then refused to comply with officers early this morning.

Jurado

Orlando Jurado, 22, faces charges of theft of a motor vehicle, reckless operation, fleeing a police officer, obstructing official business and resisting arrest.

Police were called to 570 Baldwin Ave. about 4 a.m. for a stolen 1998 red Honda Civic, according to a police report.

An officer spotted the vehicle in the area of Gulf Road and state Route 57 and followed it to the area of Giant Eagle near Midway Mall.

The officer then activated his cruiser’s overhead lights, but the vehicle refused to stop, driving toward the mall erratically, swerving around several islands in the parking lot and striking several handicapped parking signs.

The driver exited the car near Dillards and fled on foot, but officers found him hiding behind a trash compactor.

Jurado refused to comply with officers as they tried to handcuff him and then refused to stand once he was cuffed, the report said.

Jurado was booked at the Elyria police station and then taken to the Lorain County Jail.

The car, which had a flat tire and a bent rim and the steering column ripped out, was towed.

LORAIN — A 13-year-old Lorain girl who claimed to be the victim of an attack by a group of seven or eight other girls has been charged after police determined she was actually the aggressor.

The teen’s mother had reported to police on March 28 that her daughter was attacked by the group as she was walking home from track practice and that she had been having problems with another 13-year-old girl.

According to the police report, the 13-year-old who had claimed to be the victim had cuts and bruises and was missing some of her hair.

A group of men in their late teens and early 20s watched the attack and videotaped it on their cell phones, the report said.

Police determined, however, that the alleged victim had started the fight by threatening to beat up another teen several days earlier.

The pair agreed to fight, and the other girls involved were trying to break it up, police said.

The pair of girls who fought were charged with assault, according to police, and the other girls were not charged.

LORAIN — A fire this morning damaged a vacant Lorain home.

Firefighters were called to 3411 Dallas Ave. at 6:31 a.m. They arrived and found the home fully engulfed in flames and the roof about half gone, according to Assistant Chief Roy Cochran.

The fire was out in about 40 minutes, Cochran said.

A Fire Department investigator remains on scene, but Cochran said firefighters believe the fire started in a second-floor floor joist. He said the cause is believed to have been electrical.

Cochran estimated damage at $26,500, which he said is about a 50 percent or 60 percent loss.

No one was hurt in the fire.