Two More GameStops Robbed
Date: Saturday, October 27 @ 12:57:51 UTC
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Two more GameStop stores were robbed after a Marietta GameStop manager was murdered Sunday.
A GameStop in Lawrenceville and one in Lilburn were robbed by a gunman on Tuesday and Wednesday. Police are hoping surveillance video from the stores will help them catch the robber.
Police said Tuesday afternoon at the GameStop on Lawrenceville Highway in Lilburn, a man wearing a ball cap, white shirt and light colored pants walked into the store. The man asked to purchase an Xbox. When the clerk brought the game system out, the man pulled a black revolver, grabbed the Xbox and ran from the store.
According to investigators, the suspect jumped into a grey Hyundai with tinted windows. There was a driver inside. As the car left the parking lot, it hit several vehicles. Police said the car should have some damage to the front end. The car had a cardboard license plate. A customer in the store followed the suspect's car. After a short pursuit, the suspect vehicle pulled into a drug store parking lot.
"The offender got out of his car, shot the witnesses car on the passenger side, and got back in his car and took off," said Lilburn Detective Matt Lake.
On Wednesday, police said, a man wearing darker clothes walked into a GameStop on Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road in Lawrenceville. A surveillance video shows the man asking for an Xbox. When the clerk brought the game console to the counter, the suspect pulled out a black revolver, grabbed the Xbox and ran.
Lilburn police say there are enough similarities between the two to believe it is the same gunman.
"In both robberies he stood around for awhile and waited until people got out of the store and then pulled out his black revolver and pointed it at the cashier," Detective Lake said.
Sunday evening, Matthew Cherry, 21, a manager at a GameStop in Marietta, was killed during a robbery. Cherry and two other people were tied up with duct tape, but Cherry had tape wrapped around his head cutting off his breathing. An autopsy showed he suffocated. On Tuesday, Patrick Graham, 34, was arrested and charged with his murder.
Detective Lake tried to explain why the GameStops were being targeted.
"I think it's just with the popularity of the game systems, and its getting closer to Christmas," he said.
Lilburn police are asking anyone who has information about the gunman to call Detective Jeff Kinney at 770-638-2182.
News-Source: myatltv
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