Sugar Land PD Search For Robbery Suspects

SUGAR LAND, TX -- Sugar Land police are looking for two gunmen who pistol-whipped a clerk during a robbery at a Shell station, 1484 State Highway 6, on April 6.

The men came into the store just before 1:15 a.m., walked to the restroom, then approached the cashier to buy cigarettes.

According to police, the men pulled handguns, hit the cashier in the head with pistols and demanded cash from the register and safe.

The men yelled at the clerk during the beating, asking him if he wanted to die.

The clerk was then thrown to the floor, where he was kicked and pistol-whipped.

The men took money from the register and ran from the store.

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The clerk was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening head injuries.

The suspects were described as young black men wearing black jackets with hoods, black pants, black shoes and black/grey baseball hats. One of the hats had a U.S. flag on the left side.

Anyone with information should call the Sugar Land Police Department at (281) 275-2953 or Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at (281) 342-TIPS (8477).

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