UPDATE: Video Released Of Family Dollar Store Robbery
-Staff Photo By Jaime R. Carrero
Tyler PD converged on the Family Dollar Store at the Westwood Shopping Center after a 12:42 p.m. call reporting an armed robbery on Wednesday. The suspect showed the cashier a fanny pack presumably containing a firearm and demanded money.
Tyler police this afternoon are searching an area near West Front Street and Loop 323 for a man who robbed a Family Dollar Store.
The suspected is a black man who was wearing a do-rag around his head and had an orange fanny pack, said Don Martin, police information officer.
A clerk at the store in the Westwood Shopping Center, said the man entered about 12:40 p.m. today and indicated he had a gun and demanded money.
He fled the store with an undisclosed amount of money and entered nearby woods.
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Police are going from home to home in the area and searching woods.
A pair of pants found in the woods is believed to have come from the suspect, police said.
This article was last updated on Tuesday, July 2, 2008 at 6:55 p.m. CDT.
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