Do you recognize the convenience store cigarette robber who police say uses mace to disable his victims?
The latest incident played out around 3:35 a.m. inside the 7-Eleven store at 22nd and Market in Center City, said Philadelphia Police.
A man, appearing to be in his 20s with a distinctive high-top fade, who wore a camo shirt with dark shorts enters the store and asks for six packs of cigarettes valued at $62, said investigators. Surveillance video shows the man bag the smokes then pull out mace and attack the clerk before making a run for it.
Police said the same guy appeared to have struck the next day around the same time at the 7-Eleven on Franklintown Boulevard in Logan Circle. In that case, investigators said the man asked for a carton of Newports before making the 61-year-old clerk – causing the man to be hospitalized.
Investigators asked that anyone who recognizes the culprit to contact Philly Police.
