Crime & Safety

Seen These Men? They're Wanted for Allegedly Robbing a South Bay Convenience Store

They are described as black men in their 20s. Anyone with information about their identities or whereabouts was asked to call the LAPD.

SAN PEDRO, CA - The Los Angeles Police Department's Harbor Division on Wednesday circulated images of two unidentified armed robbery suspects who held up a San Pedro convenience store with a shotgun.

On March 27 around 2 a.m., the suspects entered the store in the 1500 block of North Gaffey Street and ordered the clerk to open the two cash registers.

One of the men stood by with a shotgun resting on the counter while the other jumped over the counter and took money from both registers as well as merchandise. The bandits fled on foot.

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The store's exterior video surveillance camera captured the suspects running toward the store, along with one of the suspects pointing the shotgun at an oncoming vehicle before running out of view.

One of the suspects was described as black, about 25 years old, 6 feet 2 inches tall and 200 pounds. He was wearing a gray beanie, black hooded sweatshirt, white T-shirt, white gloves, white-and-black basketball shorts and black sneakers.

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The second suspect, who appears to be 22 years old, is black, around 6 feet tall and weighs 180 pounds. He was wearing a black hooded sweater, dark gloves, black pants and black-and-white sneakers.

Anyone with information about their identities or whereabouts was asked to call Harbor Detective Acevedo at (310) 726-0675.

--City News Service, photo courtesy of the LAPD

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