Crime & Safety

Ross Police Release Surveillance Video from Gas Station Robbery

Police are looking for a white man, in his late 20's, who held up an Exxon Station on McKnight Road Wednesday morning.

Ross Township police are searching for one suspect in the robbery of the Exxon Gas Station just south of the intersection of McKnight and Nelson Run Roads late Wednesday morning. 

Wednesday evening, Ross police released surveillance video of the hold up. (see video)

"It was dead -- this guy came up and he had his right hand in his hoodie pocket and he walked in and looked around to make sure there was no one there with me," Caralin Fohl, the only employee on duty at the time, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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"He just told me open the cash register and told me to get on the ground face down," Fohl told the P-G. "It was a very scary experience, to say the least."

Fohl told the paper she didn't recognize the robber as a regular customer.

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