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Newport News 7-Eleven clerk, customer robbed at gunpoint

Posted at 6:57 AM, Sep 16, 2016
and last updated 2016-09-16 11:21:35-04

NEWPORT NEWS, Va – Newport News Police are searching for the person responsible for robbing a 7-Eleven, as well as a customer inside the store, at gunpoint early Friday morning.

The robbery happened at the location in the 13300 block of Warwick Boulevard around 1 a.m.

Police say the man entered the store and robbed a customer at gunpoint taking money, then robbed the clerk of more money.

The suspect fled the 7-Eleven on  foot across Warwick Boulevard after the robbery.

No one was hurt.

The robbery remains under investigation.