TORONTO – Police are investigating after a man was injured during a violent armed robbery caught on camera in Scarborough.
The incident happened Tuesday evening shortly before 8 p.m. at a convenience store inside an apartment building in Scarborough.
The video clearly shows two men dressed in black enter the store carrying guns. They go off-camera, but when they reappear an employee of the store is shoved into a display. One suspect points his gun at the man while he’s dragged off-camera.
The two suspects and the man continue fighting near the front door. One of the suspects repeatedly punches the man in the head while the other points his gun at him and pushes him towards the cash register.
The cash register is opened and the suspect places his gun on the counter while he empties the cash register of money. The owner grabs the man’s gun, causing both suspects to grab him and wrestle the gun away from him. One of the suspect’s pushes his gun against the man’s temple, hitting him repeatedly while the other continues to steal money and cigarettes.
Police tell Global News the man was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The daughter of the store owner told Global News in a telephone interview the convenience store had also been robbed three months ago. Police say the store has been robbed at least four times over the past decade. But police don’t think the suspects are the same people who robbed the store three months ago.
– With files from Angie Seth
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