Armed Robbery Suspect Flees After Confrontation With Customer
BULLSKIN TOWNSHIP (KDKA) – Police are investigating after an armed robbery suspect wrestled with a customer and got away in Fayette County Sunday afternoon.
According to police, the incident happened at Breakneck Market in Bullskin Township around 5 p.m.
A man entered the store, approached the counter and demanded money. As the clerk hands over cash, a customer enters the store and confronts the suspect.
David Stoots is the man who confronted the armed robber. He said he stopped by the store with his kids.
"My wife was working a long shift yesterday so we basically come out and see mom," Stoots said.
He said he was putting his kids in the car to leave when he noticed the masked man inside, demanding money from his wife.
"That was my wife behind the counter and she's my world. She's my everything to me," Stoots said. "Love, love does crazy things."
When Stoots approached the robber, they started to fight and the suspect pulled out a semi-automatic pistol.
"He threatened to kill me," Stoots said. "When the firearm came out, it was kind of flailing around. I didn't want anybody getting hurt, so the best thing to do is to just let it go."
After Stoots wrestled the suspect to the door, he took off down Breakneck Road headed north on foot and that's the last he saw of him.
The suspect is described as a white man, fair-skinned, between 5-feet-7-inches and 5-feet-9-inches tall and is between 180 and 190 pounds. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a white T-shirt. He had a ski mask covering his face and was wearing a pair of sunglasses.
The owner of the market is calling this robbery bizarre.
"[He] didn't take all the money from the register and said, 'That's enough. I didn't want to be greedy,'" owner of Breakneck Market Richard Adobato said.
Adobato says the man took about $250, but there was still about $100 left in the register.
"The person needed their heroin fix. That's today's society," Adobato said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police in Uniontown.
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