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Woman found bleeding in shop
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WINSTON-SALEM
December 10, 1995
Customers walking into Silk Plant Forest in Silas Creek Crossing about 9 p.m. yesterday found a woman lying in the back of the store, bleeding from head injuries.
Jill Marker of Huntingreen Lane, who works at the store, apparently was severely beaten during a robbery. The cash register was nearly empty, Lt. Jeff Hippert said. Police did not know last night what weapon was used. Marker was taken to Forsyth Memorial Hospital.
Darlene baxter said she and another woman walked into the store and heard someone moaning. They followed the sound to the back of the store, where they found the woman lying on some silk trees, she said.
Baxter said she first thought that the woman had been knocked out by falling trees until she saw the blood.
Baxter, a registered nurse at Baptist Hospital, tried to control the woman's bleeding while her friend called for an ambulance.
"She was very much conscious and trying to get up, and I was trying to lay her down," Baxter said.
Other customers helped Baxter hold the woman down to help stop the blood flow.
The woman was delirious, she said.
"Bless her heart, it looked like someone took a sledgehammer to her," Baxter said. Baxter had been in a store next door and went into Silk Plant Forest to get some garland.
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