A man robbed a convenience store clerk at knifepoint early Wednesday morning and Metro Police need help finding him.

Around 5 a.m., a man entered the store near Charleston and Hualapai, acting like a customer and approaching the register. When the clerk opened the register, he ran around the counter, produced a long kitchen knife and forced the clerk to give him money from the register. The suspect then fled the business.

The man is described as white, 6-foot-2, 170 pounds with a thin build. He was last seen wearing a camouflage, hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Metro Robbery Section at 828-3591 or, to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555, or visit www.crimestoppersofnv.com. Tips directly leading to an arrest or an indictment processed through Crime Stoppers may result in a cash reward.

Friends and family are invited Sunday to a memorial vigil in honor of Erik Scott, who was killed last year at the Costco store in Summerlin.

The event begins at 7 p.m. Sunday at 801 S. Pavilion Center in Las Vegas.

Scott was shot by Metro Police officers. The following comes from a Las Vegas Sun report on the September 2010 coroner’s inquest proceeding in which the officers were found justified in the shooting.

Police responded to the Costco store after dispatchers received a 911 call indicating that a man with a gun was at the store acting erratically and destroying merchandise, testimony showed.

Police confronted Scott — who was armed but had a concealed weapons permit — as he exited the store with other patrons who were being evacuated.

Two of the three officers who shot Scott testified Tuesday that they felt Scott was an “imminent” threat before they fired.

 A Las Vegas judge's son who already admitted being the motorcycle helmet-wearing armed bandit in the $1.5 million casino chip heist at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip plead guilty in another casino robbery.

Anthony Michael Carleo went before a judge Thursday in Las Vegas and took a plea deal to avoid trial in the December 9 robbery at the Suncoast Hotel & Casino in northwest Las Vegas. Authorities say Carleo made off on a motorcycle with almost $19,000.

The second plea could get the 29-year-old Carleo more than the three to 36 years in prison he faces for pleading guilty Tuesday in the December 14 Bellagio heist.   

Carleo's father, George Assad, was ousted by voters this month after nine years as a judge.

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