Crime & Safety
1 Shot During Roxborough Cell Phone Store Robbery: Report
An employee at a cell phone store on Ridge Avenue was shot during a robbery Tuesday night just one week after the same store was robbed.
ROXBOROUGH, PHILADELPHIA — An employee of a Roxborough cell phone store is recovering after being shot in a robbery Tuesday.
Fox 29 reports a worker at the Boost Mobile Store at 6125 Ridge Ave. was shot during an armed robbery Tuesday night.
According to the outlet, the robbery occurred at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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The employee is in stable condition, Fox repots.
This same store was robbed at gunpoint last week.
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At about 4:58 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 16, three men armed with semi-automatic guns came into the store and forced an employee into the back of the store.
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