Trader Joe's Robbery: Masked Gunmen Pointed Guns, Threatened Customers

PEACHTREE CORNERS, GA — Fully armed and with masks on their faces, three robbers threatened customers and pointed guns at their heads during the Sunday night robbery of the Trader Joe's in Peachtree Corners.

During the violent robbery, one of the masked men — all of whom remain at large Thursday — grabbed a customer who was buying cookies and pointed a gun at his head, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The robber forced the man and a female store employee down an aisle at gunpoint.

"Don't look at me, girl," he said to the woman, the paper reported, citing an incident report released Thursday by the Gwinnett County Police Department.

Meanwhile, the other two robbers — one of whom had a shotgun — were heading toward an office area of the store.

The crime happened after 9:30 p.m., as the Trader Joe's was closing, and the robbers found the store's safe to still be open, according to the report.

They forced two employees to the ground at gunpoint and stole more than $2,300.

No customers or employees were able to say which way the robbers went after they left the store or to give anything but the most basic descriptions of the masked men.

Anyone with information about the crime should contact Gwinnett County police at 770-513-5300.

To read the original report in the AJC, click here.

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