Gainesville Police released a surveillance video Tuesday of a mid-August armed robbery at a local barbecue restaurant.
Police are still looking for a man who robbed David’s Real Pit BBQ, located at 521 NE 23rd Ave., wrote GPD Spokesman Officer Ben Tobias in an email.
The surveillance video shows the man entering the restaurant through a back service-door, holding a bag and wearing a black jacket, mask and gray pants.
He took out a handgun and pointed it at an employee, who was mopping the floors in a backroom.
In the video, the worker glances back and forth a few times before dropping the mop and walking out of the frame with the robber.
Once they were out of the frame, the robber demanded all of the cash from the register and took two employees’ cellphones.
He placed the phones under a counter before leaving the store and took the cash with him, Tobias wrote.
An officer and police dog tracked a scent southwest toward McCoy Court Apartments with no results.
Another officer noted that around the same time as the robbery, he saw a cream-colored SUV speeding south down Northeast Second Street then west on 16th Avenue.
The robber was described as a medium-built black man, about 35 to 40 years old.
A version of this story ran on page 4 on 9/4/2013 under the headline "Police still looking for barbecue restaurant robber"
