Judging from the police report, the gas station attendant didn’t even have to time to ask “cash or credit” before the driver drew his gun.
Police say that at 8:41 p.m. on Monday, June 27, a white 4-door Jeep Cherokee pulled into the at the intersection of Morris Avenue and Meisel Avenue and parked by the pumps. When the gas station attendant removed the car’s gas cap, the driver stuck a handgun in his stomach and told him to give him all his money.
The 50-year-old male attendant complied, handing all the money he had on him to the man police described as a heavyset bearded black male between 30 and 40 years old between 5’7” and 5’9.” The thief searched the victim’s pockets for additional money while warning “don’t look at me.”
The attendant was not injured.
The suspect then fled across Morris Avenue onto Springfield Avenue, into the Vauxhall section of Union. A similar armed robbery was also committed at the BP station in Union on June that night and detectives are looking into whether the robberies were committed by the same man.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Springfield Police Detective Keith Doherty at (973) 912-2246 or Detective Sgt. Judd Levenson at (973) 912-2249.
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