News Story #3

 A bookkeeper at the North Pointe Inn was robbed in her office and witness to the murder of her colleague yesterday morning.

            Nina Cortez was counting drawers from the previous night when a man carrying a knife came around the corner at her.  Out of $6000, the man grabbed $130 in $5 bills and walked out. While the robber walked out, Cortez heard a different man say, “get that money out of there.” Cortez locked herself in her office at that point and waited for police to arrive.         

            Just minutes after police had arrived Cortez walked with officers into the reception area where she found her co-worker, Blohm, dead. There was blood on the walls and floor and Blohm had a large knife wound in his chest and another on one hand.

            Cortez described the man who robbed her as about 6-ft tall, in his early 20’s with a medium build. The man also had a scarf covering the lower part of his face. When questioned by police about anything else unusual that she’d noticed, Cortez recalled having seen a car she didn’t recognize in the parking lot when she’d come to work that morning. Cortez said she had never seen the man that robbed them before.