Armed robbers strike Rogers Park pizzeria near lunchtime
Two employees and two patrons of a Rogers Park Giordano's restaurant were robbed at gunpoint by two men who entered the eatery and ordered them to the floor about lunchtime Wednesday on the North Side.
About 1:30 p.m., the two suspects dressed in black came into the restaurant on the 6800 block of North Sheridan Road and announced a robbery, ordering some victims to the floor, Rogers Park District police Lt. John Franklin said.
One suspect ordered an employee to open a register and struck him, knocking the 53-year-old man to the ground and taking about $2,000 from the till, Franklin said.
The suspects also took $43 in cash from a 68-year-old woman customer, $45 from a 41-year-old man who manages the establishment and $20 from a 42-year-old male customer, Franklin said.
The armed man was described as being black, in his late teens or mid-20s, 5-feet, 9-inches to 5-feet, 11-inches tall, 150 to 160 pounds with a dark complexion. He was wearing a black hat, a black do-rag, a black hooded-sweatshirt, black jeans and a white shirt underneath the sweatshirt, Franklin said.
The other suspect was about 5-feet, 8-inches to 5-feet, 9-inches tall, 140 to 150 pounds and was also black with a dark complexion, wearing black baggie faded jeans.
The gun was not fired and no one was injured. The two robbers entered a small burgundy pickup truck that fled eastbound on Farwell Avenue and then southbound on Sheridan Road.
Belmont Area detectives are investigating.