ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, August 23, 1996 TAG: 9608230088
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI
An armed man wearing a blaze-orange ski mask robbed a Northeast Roanoke convenience store late Wednesday. The robber looked similar to a masked man who robbed three other stores in the city and tried to rob another one in Roanoke County over the weekend, police said.
About 11:35 p.m., a man wearing a ski mask and holding a handgun banged on a locked door at Snappy's Foodmart at 617 Liberty Road N.E. The masked man demanded that the clerk open the door. Once inside, the robber demanded money. The clerk complied. The robber ran from the store and fled in a small gray car, police said.
Within six hours last weekend, two armed, masked men robbed three convenience stores in Roanoke. The robbers wore ski masks - one colored orange and the other yellow - and one of them carried a handgun.
Late Sunday, a man wearing an orange ski mask tried to rob a food store on Williamson Road in the county, but walked away when he could not get into the store, police said. Roanoke and Roanoke County police are investigating the case together.
In an unrelated incident, a man who asked for change robbed a Southwest Roanoke store Wednesday night. About 11:07 p.m., the clerk at the 7-Eleven at 1410 Grandin Road opened the cash register to give the man change. The man told the clerk that he was holding up the store. The clerk gave the man an undisclosed amount of cash. The man fled on foot.
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