Gaming Store Robbed At Gunpoint Months After $14,000 Burglary - Kotaku

This Monday, a antheral with a weapon robbed a fashionable video crippled store successful Seattle, Washington. No 1 was hurt, though the store proprietor is disquieted that the thief mightiness return. He is inactive presently astatine large.

Pink Gorilla Games is the oldest video crippled store successful the Seattle area. It sells some modern and retro video games successful summation to trading cards and toys. Before this astir caller robbery (reported by the section Seattle Fox affiliate), the store had previously been burglarized this past July, with the losses from merchandise and damages totalling $14,000.

On Monday, an worker named Jordan Carson was moving the currency registry erstwhile a antheral approached the antagonistic with immoderate merchandise. Though things initially seemed normal, the antheral yet subtly revealed that helium had a weapon and made it evident to Carson that the store was being robbed. “It was precise casual, helium had his hands successful his pouch the full time, it was a subtle motion, but it got the occupation done,” Carson told the section TV network. “ I knew helium had a gun.” He gave the antheral everything helium demanded successful bid to support himself and his coworker, who was besides moving astatine the time. The concern was caught connected an in-store information camera.

The man, who besides seemingly said thing to Carson astir doing this due to the fact that his member was successful the hospital, told the employees to bare their show lawsuit of Pokémon and Yu-gi-oh cards. He demanded each the currency from the register, and managed to permission with a gaming console. Kotaku reached retired to inquire Pink Gorilla Games astir whether oregon not they’ve had immoderate luck successful recovering their losses, but did not person a effect by the clip of publication.

The proprietor of Pink Gorilla Games, Cody Spencer, says that he’s antecedently seen the thief astatine the store. Spencer had been livestreaming astatine the store during after-hours 1 night, and the antheral had knocked connected the door.

Carson is inactive disquieted that the antheral volition return, since the constabulary haven’t apprehended him astatine the clip of writing. “It pisses maine disconnected to get taken vantage of,” Carson told Fox News. “It’s the outgo of having thing radical privation and having a bully price, sadly it opens you up to thieves and radical who would instrumentality advantage.”