Knox County deputies are searching for an armed robbery suspect accused of robbing an east Knox County store early Monday morning.

The store's clerk told deputies that a man came into Lee's Food Mart on Rutledge Pike, showed a firearm, and demanded money. He then ran out of the store with an undisclosed amount of cash, heading east through the parking lot.

City leaders will reopen a road in east Knoxville known for flooding Monday afternoon following a year of renovations.

In the past year, crews raised the elevation of the Prosser Road, added concrete curbs, gutters and sidewalks, installed new storm drains, and created bike lanes. In all the city spent $1.4 million on the project.

Prosser Road connects Knoxville Zoo Drive and East Magnolia. For many years, heavy rains consistently shut down this section of road.

Friday afternoon, a Knox County jury found Brandon Scott Donaldson, 24, guilty of second degree murder in the death of his pregnant girlfriend, Marcia Crider.

The trial lasted five days. Donaldson was also convicted of second degree murder in the death of Crider's unborn child, and the attempted second degree murder of her mother, Pebbles Crider.