Police are searching for two men who robbed a grocery store, and tried robbing a restaurant in the Elmwood section of Southwest Philadelphia Monday night.
The incidents were recorded on surveillance cameras at each business, and police posted the footage online in hopes that help from the public leads to an arrest.
Two men walked in to the Binton African American Restaurant on Elmwood Avenue near 65th Street around 7:40 p.m., pointed a black revolver at an employee and demanded money.
Two employees ran from the counter, and the suspects fled the restaurant without taking anything, police said.
About 10 minutes later, the same men robbed the Rivas Mini Market about two blocks away on 66th Street near Buist Avenue, police said.
An employee gave the suspects an undisclosed amount of cash, and they ran from the store.
The suspects are described as two black men. One is 5 feet 10 with a heavy build, police said. He was wearing a green jacket with a purple hooded sweater, gray pants, a black mask and black gloves.
The other suspect was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and has a thin build. Police said the man was wearing a gray hooded sweater, gray pants, black shoes, a black mask, and black gloves.
Tipsters are asked to call 215-686-TIPS (8477) or the Philadelphia Police Southwest Detective Division at 215-686-3183.
Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.
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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.
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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.
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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.
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