Police say a desk clerk at the Sleep Inn was on the phone around 2 a.m. Wednesday when a man wearing a black mask and toting a pistol tried to enter. Police say the inner lobby doors, which are locked at night, kept the gunman out and he left.
The Amarillo Globe-News reports the second attempted robbery, at the Travelodge, failed when the clerk saw a man wearing a black mask and carrying a pistol entering the motel.
The clerk ran to the back of the motel and locked himself in an office as the gunman fled.
