Armed gang raids store
Monday 21st December 2009, 11:30AM GMT.
A gang armed with a handgun burst into a newsagents, threatening a customer before fleeing with a large amount of cigarettes and cash.
Three men, all wearing balaclavas and wielding a crowbar and gun, struck at Ryecroft News in Mill Street, Walsall, on Saturday at 5.30pm where they also threatened a terrified 40-year-old male customer.
They were driven away in a dark-coloured vehicle, possibly a Vauxhall Vectra, by a fourth man. No-one was injured during the robbery.
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