Crime & Safety
Gun-Point Jewelry Robbery In Inwood Fried Chicken Shop: VIDEO
Customers dropped themselves to the ground in fear as a man with a gun came storming into John's Fried Chicken in Inwood, video shows.
INWOOD, NY — An Inwood fried chicken spot recently exploded into chaos when a man jumped off the back of a motorbike and came storming into the business with a gun pointed demanding people's jewelry, police said and video released on Wednesday night shows.
The robbery happened Sunday around 8:15 p.m. at John's Fried Chicken at 512 West 207th Street, police said.
Two men arrived on a blue motorbike, before one of the men rushed into the business with his gun drawn demanding people's property, police said.
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The scared customers did their best to put their hands up and make themselves as small as possible against the walls, video shows.
The gun-toting robber ended up snatching a necklace with a pendant featuring the number "72" and fled the store — jumping back on the motorbike and taking off toward Sherman Avenue, police said.
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No shots were ever fired and no injuries were reported, police added.
Anyone with information in regard to 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).
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