Bodega Employee Pistol-Whipped During Washington Heights Robbery: NYPD

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — Police are looking for two young men who robbed a Washington Heights bodega at gunpoint, pistol-whipping one of the employees in the head, and making off with $700 in cash from the register, New York City Police Department officials told Patch.

According to the NYPD, on March 6 at 5:49 a.m., two men entered AL Grocery at 3770 Broadway, displaying a gun to two victims — a 54-year-old man and a 44-year-old man.

Then, the two perpetrators took $700 from the cash register and took wallets and phones from both men, as well as a cigar box, authorities told Patch.

Both wallets contained debit and credit cards, and one of the wallets contained $100 in cash, police said. Then, one of the perpetrators pistol-whipped the 44-year-old in the head, police told Patch.

Then, the two perpetrators ran away, heading uptown on Broadway toward West 157th Street, and the 44-year-old victim was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition.

Police said the first suspect was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with white writing on the sleeve that said "Live Forever" as well as a black face mask, black pants, a light-colored glove on his right hand, and a dark colored glove on his left hand, and black shoes.

The second suspect was last seen wearing a black jacket, red hooded sweatshirt, black face mask, gray sweatpants and black sneakers with white laces, police said.

Police are still investigating the incident, and have not made any arrests, but have released surveillance footage of the suspect.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

This is a developing story and may be updated. For questions and tips, email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.