TEWKSBURY, MASS. (WHDH) - Police are searching for a man who robbed a Tewksbury convenience store at gunpoint and pistol-whipped the clerk early Thursday morning, officials said.

Officers responding to reports of an armed robbery at the Circle K on Andover Street at 2:30 a.m. were told a man robbed the store and hit the clerk in the head with a handgun, police said.

The suspect was described as a 5-foot-9-inch Asian man wearing a mask and latex gloves, a black hooded sweatshirt, black shorts, and white sneakers.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 978-851-7373.

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