Terrifying surveillance video shows a Maryland Papa John’s robbed by a group armed with an AR-15. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.
A man with an AR-15 rifle and two others robbed a Papa John's in Maryland in what appears to have been part of an hours-long crime spree.
Surveillance video from Sunday around 2:30 p.m. shows a man walk into the pizza shop on East West Highway in Silver Spring as a lookout.
Then two other men walk in behind him with a handgun and an AR-15.
“I was very scared,” an employee told News4. “I couldn’t speak.”
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They forced three employees on the ground at gunpoint and took cash, police said.
“They put the gun on my head, and I opened the register for them,” the employee said.
Detectives said the men robbed a Subway restaurant in Northeast D.C. about an hour later.
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Surveillance video shows the three men walk in with the handgun and rifle, steal money from the register, and walk out.
Then, in Prince George’s County, the men robbed a liquor store on Oxon Hill Road, pointing guns and taking cash, detectives said.
Detectives want anyone with information to call Montgomery County police. Montgomery County Crime Solvers will pay a cash reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and an indictment.
