Police look for Subway robbery suspect
Washington police are looking for the man who robbed Subway restaurant, 217 Jefferson Ave., about 9 p.m. Monday and showed an employee he had a gun.
An employee told police he was working behind the counter when a man walked in through the door on the drive-through side of the building and immediately demanded all of the money from the cash register.
The employee told the robber he had to get a key for the register. The robber reportedly told the clerk to hurry up or he was “going to catch a … bullet.”
The clerk told police he got a key from another register in the restaurant. He used it to open the register at the front of the store and handed the suspect the money, police said.
The robber then reportedly lifted his shirt, revealing what appeared to be a black pistol tucked inside the waistband of his shorts.
He then fled from the store through the same door with the undetermined amount of cash.
Police said it appears the robber ran through the back parking lot between the PNC bank automated teller machine drive-through and the building housing Solomon’s restaurant.
Two other employees were in the restaurant at the time of the robbery. One was in the back, and the other was washing dishes.
The robber is a white man, 6 feet to 6 feet, 6 inches tall, with a thin build. He wore a black ball cap with a Steelers emblem, a white T-shirt with some sort of emblem, white shorts, black shoes and was carrying a black backpack. He had a tattoo on the right side of his neck and dark hair that stuck out from under the cap.
Police are obtaining video surveillance from the restaurant.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 724-223-4226 or 911.