Westwood ? A Lenexa man working the early morning shift at the Apple Market grocery store in Westwood was killed by a disguised man who was attempting to rob the business.

It was the first homicide in Westwood since the Kansas City suburb was incorporated in 1949, and the second in Johnson County this year.

Ray Ninemire, 68, was filling in for a vacationing supervisor when a man who witnesses said was disguised as Abraham Lincoln or an Amish person walked into the store around 6 a.m. carrying a pistol.

The robber pointed the gun at a cashier and was directing her to a customer service counter when Ninemire came toward the front of the store, police said.

The robber shot Ninemire in the leg and also shot at a female customer, who was slightly injured by bullet fragments. The gunman fled without any money; Ninemire bled to death from his wound.

Police described the assailant as about 5 feet 5 inches tall with a medium build. He was possibly a white man and wore a fake beard, a long, dark jacket and a dark hat with a brim all around.

The store’s surveillance videotape ran out more than an hour before the man entered the store, police said.

“The only real part of him that was seen was his eyes,” said Capt. Mike Raunig of the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department.

A police dog that was brought in Friday morning failed to locate a suspect. The suspect still had not been found Saturday.

Ninemire’s wife, Phyllis, said her husband had grown up in Kansas City, Kan., and had worked in grocery stores since high school.

“Ray loved the grocery business,” she said. “He just loved his job.”

Next month would have been Ray and Phyllis Ninemire’s 45th anniversary.

Phyllis Ninemire said her husband had been planning to retire next spring.