WASHINGTON - A D.C. store clerk is hospitalized after he was shot in the stomach when he intervened to help a customers who was being attacked and robbed.

Clinton Price Jr came out from behind the plexiglass-enclosed structure where he works with his father in Price's Grocery. His Father, Clinton Sr, watched the whole thing.

"The [robber] took her head and slammed it against the glass here and started hitting her and her nose bust open," he recalled.

Clinton Sr. says his son, who is a trained boxer, ran around to intervene. That's when the man pulled a gun and shot Clinton Jr, who remains hospitalized.

Police say the gunman fled the store, carjacked a motorist and drove away, only to crash into another vehicle on 16th Street, where he bailed out and fled on foot.

The news shocked his boxing coach, Eugene Hughes, who said Clinton Jr "really knows how to fight."

Clinton Jr lost part of his stomach, liver and gallbladder but is expected to survive.

Clinton Sr said his son told him he would do the same thing over again if confronted with the same situation. 

The gunman remains on the loose at last check.

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