El Paso police investigators seek to identify a masked man armed with a handgun who robbed a Circle K store at gunpoint in the Northeast.
The armed robbery occurred on Feb. 8 at the Circle K store at 10567 Rushing Road at the corner of Salem Drive next to Veterans Park, Crime Stoppers of El Paso said. The unsolved case is the Crime of the Week.
At 12:56 a.m., a customer was at the store counter when a man in a black balaclava ski mask walked in with a handgun, which he pointed at the clerk and the customer, Crime Stoppers said.
The man demand money from the cashier, stole an undisclosed amount of cash and was last seen walking out of the store heading south toward Trojan Drive.
The robber was about 5 feet 8 inches tall with an average build and was in his mid-20s to early 30s. He was a wearing a black balaclava mask, a black hooded sweatshirt and a black hooded jacket, navy blue Aeropostale 1987 running pants and black Nike Air Force 1 sneakers.
Anyone with information on the robbery may anonymously call Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 915-566-8477 (TIPS) or leave a tip online at cselpaso.org.
Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com and @BorundaDaniel on X.
This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Masked man robs Circle K store at gunpoint in Northeast El Paso
Reporting by Daniel Borunda, El Paso Times / El Paso Times
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