At the end of last night's news, we told you about an armed robbery at A and R Store. Tonight details of that terror- filled event are known. Around 6:27 pm a man with a stocking over his face walked into A&R holding the security guard at gunpoint while his accomplice guarded the door. The man ordered everyone to lie on the floor. The store had already closed, but the employees and many of their young children were inside with them.
Everyone was in a panic, as the gunman went first to the supervisor's office and stole a plastic bag with over nine thousand dollars in cash. He then turned his attention to the workers, and even their children, snatches cell phones, rings and chains from them. Then, he ordered all of them to stand up and matched them up to the second floor and ordered the supervisor to open the safe - where he stole another three thousand in cash.
He then ordered all of them into a small room upstairs, locked them inside and both men escaped with $12,279 dollars in cash and $1,230.00 in valuables stolen form the employees and their children.
The GSU responded shortly after. And while we were told initially that they caught the robbers - namely two men we saw at the scene with shirts over their faces, we learned that those were suspects picked up in a nearby gang area - who, it turns out, had nothing to do with the robbery.
The end of August is back to school time, which is when A and R is at its busiest.
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