There’s been another armed robbery of a store in Cowanshannock Township, Armstrong County, less than two weeks after an armed robbery of store nearby. Although in different directions, both holdups were within a mile or less of West Shamokin High School, and the suspects in the first robbery were already in custody when the second one occurred.
The robbery on Tuesday night occurred between 8:50 and 9 o’clock when a man walked into Nelson’s Mini Mart along Route 839, armed with a handgun, and demanded money from the clerk. After getting an undisclosed amount, he fled in an unknown direction.
State police were on scene within minutes and searched the area, including nearby woods, with spotlights, but the robber had fled in an unknown direction.
The suspect is white, about 5-feet-7-inche to 5-feet-9-inches tall, with a thin build. He was wearing black jeans, a black hoodie, a blue bandana, and dirty black work boots. If you know anything about the robbery, call state police in Kittanning at 724-543-2011.
In the first robbery, Joseph Vandervort and Amy McMaster of Dayton both were charged on Monday with four counts of aggravated assault and two counts each of robbery with a deadly weapon, robbery and related offenses in a January 21st holdup at a Subway in Numine.
