Two convenience stores robbed in Washington
A man armed with a handgun robbed the Kwik Fill on East Maiden Street in Washington Monday night.
The Uni-Mart on East Maiden Street in Washington was robbed by a gunman early Tuesday.
The armed suspect in Monday night’s robbery at the Kwik Fill on East Maiden Street is shown in this screenshot from surveillance video.
Two convenience stores on East Maiden Street in Washington were robbed in a matter of hours, likely by the same suspect, late Monday and early Tuesday, Washington police said.
The Kwik Fill gas station at 705 E. Maiden was held up about 9:50 p.m. Monday by a man dressed in a black or blue hoodie, a woodland camouflage ski mask and black gloves.
The man, described by police as being 5 feet, 8 inches tall, entered the store already holding a silver handgun and demanded one of the two clerks in the front of the store put “all the cash in the bag.” He realized he didn’t have a bag, according to the clerks, and reached around to grab a plastic bag from the counter.
A third employee was watching the suspect on security cameras and hit an alarm to notify authorities. The suspect repeatedly demanded the clerks open the safe, but they said they didn’t know how. He took $300 in cash from the store and left.
Then, about 3:20 a.m. Tuesday, a man believed to be the same suspect entered the Uni-Mart store at 336 1/2 E. Maiden and demanded cash, threatening to use a silver handgun against the store employee. The suspect again made off with all the cash in the register, about $300.
City police reviewed security footage obtained from the Kwik Fill robbery and were processing video from the Uni-Mart robbery late Tuesday.
The Kwik Fill was robbed four times in the last 14 months, and the Uni-Mart was last robbed in March 2013.