CALABASAS : Motel Clerk Wounded in Botched Robbery

Two guests of a Calabasas motel shot and seriously wounded a motel clerk in a botched robbery attempt and then fled without obtaining any money--not even the $60 they had paid for their room, sheriff’s officials said Tuesday.

The two men walked into the lobby of the Good Nite Inn in the 26500 block of Agoura Road and registered for the night, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. Cameron Mooney said. After paying for their room, the men went outside to make calls on a nearby pay phone. As they did, the night manager left the office to check on a disturbance in the motel’s pool courtyard. When he returned, the two men confronted him at gunpoint and demanded money.

A struggle apparently erupted, and one of the men shot the manager in the buttocks and abdomen, Mooney said. The men sped away in a white Oldsmobile without taking any cash. Police tried to find them through the address on their guest registration card, but it turned out to be bogus.