Have You Seen Him: Tomball Police Search For Stripes Store Robber

TOMBALL — Tomball Police are looking for the man who walked into the Stripes Convenience Store on Tomball Parkway on Nov. 26, pulled out a gun, and robbed the store of an undetermined amount of cash.

The man came into the store and seemed very polite as he allowed everyone in the line to go ahead of him. But when everyone had been helped and had left, ne pulled out a semiautomatic handgun, hopped over the front counter, fired his gun into the ceiling and demanded cash.

The frightened cashier opened the two cash registers for the robber, and the w3atchede as the registers were emptied.

The robber ran from the store and got into a silver Toyota sedan, and was seen going south on State Highway 249.

The man was a white male, about 5-feet-10 to 6-feet tall. He was wearing a tan coat, blue jeans a white ball cap and sun glasses.

The Tomball Police Department is offering a reward for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with any information is asked to call Detective Harral at 281-2390-1311.

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