Robbery Leaves One Dead at the North Point Inn

North Point Inn bookkeeper Nina Cortez describes surviving a deadly robbery yesterday and finding co-worker Kevin Blohm dead.

Having worked for seven years as the bookkeeper at the North Point Inn, Cortez recalled arriving yesterday shortly before 9:00 a.m. and letting herself in at the back entrance. She remembers speaking with cook, Kevin Blohm and asking him to make some coffee. Blohm delivered her coffee and Cortez said, “that was the last I saw him.”

After removing $6,000 in cash and credit card receipts from the safe, Cortez was just beginning to count the money when an intruder barged in and grabbed $130 in cash. Cortez reported that she began kicking and screaming causing her chair to fall and the robber to leave the office.

She believes the man had an accomplice because she heard a man say, “get the money out of there.” She quickly locked the door and within minutes police arrived on the scene and discovered Blohm dead.

Cortez described a male robber in his early 20s wearing jeans, a blue plaid shirt and blue tennis shoes. She said he covered his lower face with a floral scarf and was between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet tall with a medium build.