Wendy's Worker Battered With Gun During Attempted Robbery Sunday: PD

NEW HAVEN, CT — Sunday night just after 9:30 p.m., two masked, and armed, males tried to rob the Whalley Avenue Wendy's, one of whom battered an employee in the head with a firearm, police said.

The two fled when they could not get a cash register open, according to New Haven police spokesperson officer Christian Bruckhart.

Employees told police that the two entered the restaurant, followed an employee to the register, when one "brandished a black firearm and started hitting the employee in the head with it," Bruckhart said, adding that the second male also brandished a firearm and pointed it at the other employees.

"The male attempted to access the register but fled when they could not get it open," Bruckhart said.

Restaurant workers were treated for minor injuries, he said.

Police ask that anyone who may have witnessed this incident or who may have information valuable to investigators to call detectives at 203-946-6304 or through the department's anonymous tip-line at 866-888-TIPS (8477).