SAN DIEGO: A man carrying a threatening note in a shoe box robbed an Albertsons supermarket on University Avenue near 44th Street in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego yesterday afternoon.

The robber presented a cashier with a note in a shoe box demanding that the cashier give him all the money in the cash drawer or risk being killed, San Diego police said. Police were called just before 4 p.m. The robber fled on foot with an unknown amount of cash.

The man, described as having a shaved head and light facial hair, was last seen boarding a westbound bus on University. Officers boarded and inspected a bus but did not find the robber, a San Diego police spokesman said.

–L.B.