Press release from Asheville Police Department:
Asheville Police investigators are seeking the public’s help in identifying a pair of armed robbers who held up an east Asheville convenience store at gunpoint Monday night.
APD officers were dispatched to a convenience store in the 600 block of Swannanoa River Road around 9:50 p.m. on March 21 to investigate an armed robbery. The responding patrol officer quickly arrived on scene and conducted interviews and observed surveillance video.
The investigation showed that a man entered the store around 9:48 p.m., approached the counter brandishing a handgun, and pointed to the register for the clerk to give him the money. The man then left with the cash about a minute later and got into a vehicle with a getaway driver and departed the area.
The clerk was not injured.
APD investigators say the suspect who entered the store is described as a white male who was wearing clothing head-to-toe, including gloves, a red bandanna, sunglasses and a blue beanie hat. The armed robber departed the store and got into a green-colored Mazda sedan with a license plate in the rear window. The driver of that vehicle, described as a white male also holding a handgun (as seen on surveillance video), waited outside in the vehicle while looking inside the store during the robbery.
If anyone has any information about the identity of these suspects or the vehicle they were driving, you are encouraged to contact APD at (828) 252-1110. Or you can send an anonymous tip using the TIP2APD smartphone application (search “Asheville PD” in your app store) or by texting TIP2APD to 847411.
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