November 9, 2010
Indian Head Park police are looking for two Hispanic men who stole wedding rings at gunpoint from Guy Blando Jewelry, 6950 S. Wolf Road, at 4 p.m. Nov. 2.
Police were responding to a hold-up alarm at the location when dispatchers said a 911 caller said an armed robbery had just occurred. Two men with handguns had fled south on Wolf in a blue/purple Ford Ranger pickup. One of the store's owners fired several rounds from his .380-caliber pistol at them as they drove off, hitting the truck.
Indian Head Park police released this sketch of one of the armed robber involved in a heist at a local jewelry store.
The two suspects had entered the store earlier, at about noon, and looked at wedding rings. They returned again at 3 or 3:30 p.m. to look at the rings again. Half an hour later, they both abruptly pulled out handguns and demanded a tray of rings valued at $9,722.
The first suspect, who brandished a chrome revolver, is described as 5 feet, 6 inches tall, in his 30s, with a medium build. He was wearing a gray button down shirt and has a scar above his right eyebrow.
The second suspect, in his 50s, has a darker, pock-marked complexion. He was wearing a white baseball hat and wearing a white Hawaiian-style shirt. He displayed a blue steel handgun.
The suspects were also seen by two hair stylists, who said they'd entered their salon and asked questions. They were acting "peculiarly," the stylists said. Then they left the salon, apparently to return to the jewelry store.
A license plate number provided by a witness did not check out, and witnesses said a photograph of the vehicles' owner was not one of the men police are looking for.
Persons with information about the suspects are asked to call the Indian Head Park Police Department at (708) 246-3161.
Was there an email blast from the school about this? Bullets were flying on a school day, down the street from the middle school, shortly after school got out. Would this be an important thing to communicate to parents?
What do you think?
3 comments:
I would think the school would have been on a lock down....This is the first I heard of it. Thank you for posting it..
Was the school informed by the police at the time or at any time? I have found the school to be very diligent when they are notified by policy in sending an email blast.
Good question. You should ask the school.
We hope that the Indian Head Park police department and the school district have a good enough relationship that this information would have been communicated to the school very quickly.
It has been 9 days and this is the first most are hearing of it and there was never any mention of it by the school district.
Our concern is that kids were on their way home from the middle school and some still at school when this occurred just down the street. With shots being fired and the armed robbers heading in the direction of the school, didn't anyone inform the school so they could alert parents?
Maybe someone from the school district can chime in with an answer. Anyone?
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