A woman with two small children was pepper-sprayed late Sunday during an altercation at a 7-Eleven in San Jose.

Shortly after 11 p.m., police responded to calls of a disturbance in the 5100 block of Monterey Road, where they located the woman and her children, according to Officer Gina Tepoorten.

According to Tepoorten, a preliminary investigation revealed that another woman physically assaulted the woman when she got out of her car at the convenience store. At one point, the suspect pepper-sprayed the victim. The children remained inside the car but may have been affected by indirect contact from the spray, Tepoorten said.

The suspect, who is known to the victim, fled the scene before officers arrived and has not been apprehended.

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No other information was immediately available.

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