Convenience Store Held Up at Gunpoint Overnight in Alexandria: Police

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The Alexandria Police Department is investigating a commercial robbery of a convenience store in the 500 block of John Carlyle Street (see map below), police said in an alert late Tuesday night. Two suspects robbed the store of cash and one brandished a gun, police said. No one was injured, according to police.

Police sent out an alert about the Tuesday night robbery Wednesday morning, just after midnight, at 12:36 a.m.

Approximate location of armed robbery Tuesday night in Alexandria (Google maps):

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