island avenue store was robbed. now he s hospitalized. his mother is recovering from lung cancer and the whole family is trying to find a place to live. fox 5 s bob barnard has their story. the guy shouldn t have he didn t really have to shoot my son. he could have got the money and just walked a way. reporter: that s denise grenich s son albert, standing at the cash register, a pistol pointed at him. the still unidentified gunman would eventually shoot the 30- year-old pharmacy manager who remains hospitalized tonight. i don t know why people are so cruel out here nowadays and just have to do things like that and got my son paralyzed. reporter: he s a 31-year- old father of two children including a 3-month-old baby girl. he got good spirits. he just is that type of person. he don t let nothing get him down. when anything happens, he was glad it wasn t the workers that got shot. he was afraid it would have been one of the workers. reporter: the gunman is still o
that leaves a father paralyzed. he was shot in that rite aid friday afternoon in northeast. fox 5 s bob barnard is in the newsroom now with the latest. still no arrests in the case. the victim is in the hospital. he told me over the phone today he begged the gunman not to shoot him, said the man kept telling him to hurry up and hand over the cash. he tried to hurry but was shot anyway. the victim s mother, a recent lung cancer survivor, says her son is trying to keep a positive attitude. the guy shouldn t have he didn t really have to shoot my son. could he have got the money and just could he have got the money and just walk he could got the money and just walked a way. reporter: that s denise albert s son, the pistol pointed right at him eventually shot and is hospitalized tonight. i don t know why people are so cruel nowadays and just have to do things like that and got my son paralyzed. he s a 31-year-old father of two children including a 3- month-old bab