Waco police were investigating three apparently unrelated armed robberies Friday, with victims including an East Waco convenience store owner, a North Waco ice cream man and a South Waco woman who was shot in the shoulder.

Police were looking for a man who reportedly robbed a woman and man at gunpoint at Robinson Drive Garden Apartments, 2724 Robinson Drive, taking an undisclosed amount of cash, then shooting the woman as she tried to escape, police said. The incident occurred about 1:30 a.m. Friday, police said. The woman was taken by ambulance to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center for treatment. A complete report was not available late Friday.

In another incident at 9:42 a.m., two men held up the owner of Chapman’s convenience store at 801 E. Waco Drive, at gunpoint, taking a “large sum of money,” according to police reports.

The men pulled up in a white Plymouth van and approached the victim, who was in his truck after a trip to the bank, reports state. The two suspects fled in the van but abandoned it nearby behind the vacant G.L. Wiley Middle School on East Live Oak Street. Police discovered the van, which was still running, and impounded it as evidence.

As of Friday evening, police had not reported any arrests.

About 5:20 p.m., police say a man pushing an ice cream and snack cart in the 2500 block of Cumberland Avenue was attacked by three men, described by witnesses as being in their late teens. The 49-year-old man, an employee of Paleteria La Azteca who spoke no English, was hit in the head by a large rock wrapped in a shirt, witnesses said. The three men escaped without taking money.

An ambulance came and bandaged the man’s head Friday afternoon, as temperatures climbed above 100 degrees.

“This kind of thing makes you mad,” said Sgt. Phil Thompson, who responded to the incident. “This guy was out doing what can’t be an easy job, just trying to make a little money.”

In other police news Friday:

* A Belton man died in Coryell County when his Honda motorcycle hit a trailer, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Justin Lee Moran, 21, was headed east on State Highway 84 at a high speed about 12:40 p.m. when he collided with a utility trailer pulled by a 2002 Ford pick-up driven by Maurice Young of Gatesville. Young was turning onto Highway 84 from County Road 130, and Moran tried to lay the motorcycle down before the collision.

Moran, who was wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene and taken to Gatesville Funeral Home.

* Waco police reported that 19-year-old Steven Fisher, who had been missing and feared to be in danger, had called his mother from a blocked number. He said he was fine but not ready to come home yet, police reported.

* Waco police reported that they seized eight gambling machines, called eight-liners, from the EZ Mart convenience store at 3600 Bagby Ave on Thursday.

Investigators concluded that the machines were giving illegal payoffs. No one was arrested in the case, police said.