Gun Totting Thief Sticks Up Bodega

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

December 21, 2022

BRONX - A Bronx bodega stickup was caught on video with the crook swinging around a handgun terrorizing the store employee across the street from the Bronx VA Hospital.

At around 7:30 pm on December 7, an 18-year-old employee was working in the grocery store at 117 West Kingsbridge Road. Suddenly a man dressed in black burst into the store and started waving a handgun around demanding cash. 

Cops say the perp made off with $2,500 cash and then ran out. No injuries were reported.

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