A Kalihi pawn shop clerk was pistol whipped during an attempted robbery, police said.

They said a man entered the pawn shop at 10 a.m. Saturday and asked to see a ring. He returned 10 minutes later with a pistol, they said, and demanded money and gold from the 45-year-old clerk.

The clerk refused and the gunman pistol whipped him and fled without taking anything, police said.