Family Dollar store employees robbed at gunpoint

Suspect gets away with unknown amount of cash

DETROIT – Police are searching for a robber who held two Family Dollar employees at gunpoint early Sunday, before demanding the one of them to empty the store safe.

Detroit police say the manager of the store received a call around 4 a.m. about a possible break-in.

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When the manager and assistant manager arrived, there was no sign of a break-in.

At about 8 a.m., they returned to check the aisles for missing items. While searching the store, the manager heard the assistant manager scream for help.

The manager turned around to find the assistant manager being held at gunpoint. The employees were forced to open a safe and fill the suspects bag with money, police said.

Police said there were no injuries, and a point of entry and the amount of money the robber got away with is unknown at this time.