New York Post

Girl's terror in gunpoint rob

6-yr.-old cowers amid Bx. bodega heist

- By AMANDA WOODS awoods@nypost.com

A gunman and an accomplice robbed a Bronx bodega — with an employee’s terrified 6-year-old daughter inside, new video released by cops shows.

The suspects entered the store on Featherbed Lane in Morris Heights around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, cops said.

The video, released late Wednesday, shows one of the men running past the little girl — the daughter of a 51-year-old store employee — who waves her arms around before running for cover behind a display case.

The suspect grabs the cash register door, holding $700, and makes a beeline for the door.

Then, the other suspect, holding a gun in one hand, pushes the girl’s mother with the other.

She gets back up and continues fighting with him, chasing him out of the store.

Both suspects fled into a black SUV, cops said.

No shots were fired and no injuries were reported.

The same store was targeted during another armed robbery back on Nov. 21, just after midnight, according to police.

Police say an employee, also identified as a 51-year-old woman, was working behind the counter when two men entered, one of them flashing a gun and demanding property.

The other went behind the counter, stole about $150 from the register and took off.

Those suspects are believed to be between 20 and 30 years old.

And back on Sept. 27, around 6 p.m., a 63-year-old woman was sitting in her car outside the store when a woman got out of a double-parked vehicle, walked up to her and punched her in the face, police sources said.

When the victim tried to take down her attacker’s license plate number, a man approached, grabbed her by the neck and pushed her out of the car and onto the ground, according to the sources.

The woman was treated at the scene for bruising to her head and cuts on her knees and elbows. She was not hospitaliz­ed.

Police at the time released surveillan­ce photos of the male suspect, whom they described as between 20 and 30 years old. He was shown in the images wearing a red Los Angeles Angels cap.

Police could not immediatel­y say whether investigat­ors believe any of the incidents are linked.

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 ??  ?? CALLOUS: A worker’s young daughter runs for cover as two men, one with a gun (right), burst into a Morris Heights bodega Sunday. They got away with $700 in the second robbery at the store in two weeks.
CALLOUS: A worker’s young daughter runs for cover as two men, one with a gun (right), burst into a Morris Heights bodega Sunday. They got away with $700 in the second robbery at the store in two weeks.

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