
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — The NYPD is searching for a man who shot the door of a Brooklyn convenience store and then robbed the cashier at gunpoint, police said Monday.
The thief entered the 531 Utica Ave. store on Oct. 16 just before 6 p.m., fired at the cashier's door, forced his way into the area where the 29-year-old employee was hiding and made the employee open the cash register at gunpoint.
Police said he removed $1,200 cash and $1,000 in tobacco and CBD oils, then fled northbound on foot toward Utica Avenue.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.