GV store worker robbed at gunpoint

A Green Valley man was reportedly robbed at gunpoint Monday morning by a man wearing women’s hosiery over his face to conceal his identity.

Dave McBride says he entered his wife’s clothing boutique, Rose’s Fashions, 250 W Continental Rd., around 8 a.m. Monday morning, and forgot to lock the front door behind him. When he returned from taking out the trash through a back entrance, he found that a man wielding a handgun had followed him into a back room, he said.

The gunman reportedly demanded money from the cash register, but McBride told him he couldn’t access the register. The gunman then asked for the cash in McBride’s wallet, and ran out of the store and through the Continental Shopping Plaza parking lot, toward McDonald’s, McBride says.

A Sheriff’s deputy who was in the area responded to the scene immediately, but was unable to find the suspect, reports said.

“I think he must have had an accomplice, and that’s how he was able to get away so quickly,” said McBride. “The store has been here 28 years, and nothing like this has happened before.”

However, with the string of home burglaries this summer and a recent theft from his own Green Valley residence, McBride says he is no longer surprised that such crimes occur in Green Valley.

“He probably saw that I have white hair and a new truck, and thought it was an opportunity to get a lot of money,” he said.

The suspect was wearing a brown canvas jacket, blue jeans and gloves, and had hosiery obscuring his face, said McBride. He says he thinks the man was probably in his 30s or 40s.

Sheriff’s deputies questioned workers in nearby stores, but no one had any information on the reported robbery, reports said.

Call the Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s Green Valley Station at 351-6711 if you have any information.

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