To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (71975 ) 6/22/2001 6:42:54 PM From: Ben Wa Respond to of 122087 7-11 CLERK ARRESTED AFTER STABBING CUSTOMER: A 7-Eleven customer went to the hospital with a stab wound, and the store clerk wound up in jail after the customer's comments turned into a confrontation, police said. Store clerk Deborah Wolfman, 29, was booked on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, according to a criminal complaint filed early Saturday in Metropolitan Court. According to the complaint, customer Robert Flores asked Wolfman for cigarette rolling papers and she told him to get them for himself. "Now I have to do your job, too?" Flores was quoted as replying. With that, Flores was ordered to leave the store, officers said. "I can't even get gas?" he was quoted as asking. Wolfman said he could not, and Flores then knocked over the display rack for the cigarette papers and left the store, the complaint says. Wolfman, who contends Flores threw some Mr. Goodbar candy bars at her, followed him into the parking lot, where the two started hitting each other, the complaint says. Only later did Flores realize he had been stabbed, it says. Investigators who visited him at Presbyterian Hospital said they found he had a puncture wound to the upper left side of his chest. Two witnesses, both of whom were with Flores, said they saw Wolfman carrying a knifelike object, according to the complaint. One witness, Flores' sister Theresa, was in the store with Flores and said she saw no candy bars thrown. The other witness, Melody Morales, was in the car. Messages were left seeking comment Monday from Wolfman. Margaret Chabris, a corporate spokeswoman for 7-Eleven in Dallas, said the company licenses another company to operate the store in question. "We do not allow or permit retaliation or violence or confrontation," Chabris said, "unless they (employees) are trying to save their own lives." A message also was left seeking comment from 7-Eleven licensee Southwest Convenience Stores in Odessa, Texas.