Robbers hold employees at knifepoint inside cell phone store on Shotwell near Fifth Ward area, HPD says - KTRK-TV

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Two men are connected the tally aft holding up employees astatine knifepoint wrong a compartment telephone store.

It happened connected Saturday, Aug. 13 astatine astir 4:10 p.m. successful the 700 artifact of Shotwell adjacent Lyons Avenue.

According to Houston police, the men, believed to beryllium betwixt 20 and 25 years old, ran up to store employees and demanded currency and compartment phones from the backmost office. One of the men was equipped with a knife, constabulary said.

The robbers took the workers to the backmost office, removed the compartment phones from the safe, the wealth from the currency drawers and took a purse belonging to 1 of the employees, officials said.

Then the men ran away.

Police said 1 fishy was 5'7," 165 pounds and wore a greenish hoodie and a achromatic mask. Authorities described the 2nd fishy arsenic being 5'7," 180 pounds and wore a grey hoodie and a achromatic mask.

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