Cameras Capture Subway Robbery, Bandit At Large
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PEMBROKE PARK (CBSMiami)---New surveillance tape shows striking images of a gunman ordering two employees at a Subway restaurant to climb over a counter and give him what cash they have in the register.
The Broward Sheriffs Office is calling the suspect "polite" because he tells the victims he does not want to hurt them.
"This is a robbery," the gunman is quoted by employees as saying. "Don't nobody move. Give me the money. I won't hurt anybody. Can't you see my face is exposed. Give me the money."
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The surveillance tape shows one employee vaulting the counter and as the suspect points a gun in her direction, employee Khadija Begum crouches underneath the counter. As this happens, two female customers are seen standing calmly by the cash register.
Begum, who has two children, tells CBS4's Peter D'Oench, "I was here around 4:45 in the afternoon along with another co-worker and two customers and this guy comes in. He called me from the front. I came over here and then he pointed the gun like this and said give me the money. Then he also said don't call anybody."
"Were you scared?" asked D'Oench.
"Yes, of course," she said. "This is the first time anything like this has happened to me. This has never happened to me before."
"What did you think when he was pointing a gun?" asked D'Oench.
"I'm thinking maybe he would shoot somebody," she said. "I hope the police find him."
Subway restaurant manager Rodney Maraj said he had just left his business a few moments before the robbery.
"It happened during a slow time of day at around 4:45 in the afternoon," he said.
"He ordered the customers to line up right in front of counter and he asked the guy by the register to give him all the money," said Maraj, who said the robber got away with $115.
"He didn't point the gun right at the employes," he said. "He had it in his right hand so he could be intimidating. He asked them to climb over the counter because he wanted them to be in front with the customers. That way he can escape through the back door."
"They were terrified, especially her," he said. "This is an especially busy area and we really don't get many robberies here."
Maraj said he has never been robbed before in the four years that he has managed the restaurant.
"This man just walked in like he was a regular customer," he said. "We were not able to tell he was a robber. It was strange like he wasn't afraid to get caught."
Maraj hopes someone will recognize the gunman.
"Call police so we can get him off the street," he said. "The fact that he wasn't wearing a mask shows that he wasn't afraid to get caught."
"What would it mean if he was caught?" asked D'Oench.
"It would mean the streets are safer," he said. "That is always better."
Employes said they did not recognize the suspect.
They said he had a Jamaican accent and fled in a green pickup truck with dark-tinted windows and two doors. Investigators say there was a tool box in the truck bed.
Anyone with information should call BSO or Broward Crime Stoppers at (954) 493-TIPS (8477).