Crime & Safety

Manchester Police Searching for Armed Robber

The suspect is described as a light skin black male wearing a red sweatshirt, black pants and carrying a red and black gym type bag.

Manchester Police are searching for an armed male who robbed a Getty gas station on Tolland Turnpike Friday night. 

According to police, the robbery occurred at approximately 9:20 p.m. Friday when a “light-skinned black male” displayed a silver automatic handgun and demanded money from the clerk. 

Police said the suspect then went behind the register and also took an unknown quantity of Newport cigarettes. 

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Police described the suspect as “a light skin black male wearing a red sweatshirt, black pants and carrying a red and black gym type bag.”

The suspect was also wearing green or blue gloves and fled on foot east on Tolland Turnpike towards the Baymount Inn possibly to a waiting vehicle, according to police. Witnesses also described a black car, possibly a Ford Taurus, leaving the site immediately after the robbery.  

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Anyone with information is asked to contact the Manchester Police at 860-645-5510.


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