Sunset Park Tobacco Store Robbed By Gunpoint, Police Say

SUNSET PARK, NY — Three men stole more than $2,000 during a gunpoint robbery of a Fourth Avenue tobacco store earlier this week, police said.

The suspects walked into Big Discount City Tobacco, at 4802 Fourth Ave., on Monday at about 6:30 a.m. when one took out a gun, according to the NYPD.

The gunman forced the store clerk into the bathroom while the other two suspects opened the cash register and stole $2,300 cash, police said.

The suspects then fled the location in an unknown direction. No injuries were reported during the robbery.

Police described the first suspect as a 5-foot 10-inch tall man between 20 to 25 years old, the second as a 23-year-old man and the third as a man in his twenties.

Anyone with information in regards to the above pattern is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS or for Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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