Shreveport Police Dept.

Date: Mar 20, 2008

Phone: 318/673-6932 Fax: 318/673-6933

Contact: Randy Patrick, Night-Side P.I.O.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RJ’s Armed Robbery

Shreveport Police are looking for 2 men who robbed at gun point a restaurant this morning.

The armed robbery took place around 1:45 AM this morning at RJ's restaurant in the 9100 block of Mansfield road.

2 Black men described as being between 5'9" and 6 feet tall with a slender build walked into the restaurant. The first man was wearing dark clothes and was armed with a semi-automatic handgun. The second man was wearing a red ski mask and red sweater.

The second man walked straight to the cash register and demanded the money in the register from an employee.

The two men left the restaurant with an undetermined amount of money and ran to the bowling alley behind the restaurant. There they got into an older model Oldsmobile '88 which was either gray or faded black in color. The car was last seen going North Bound on Hoyte Street.

No one was injured in the robbery.

Anyone with information about this robbery is asked to call the Tactical Robbery Unit at 673-6955 or Crimes Stoppers at 6973-7373.

Information can be left with crimestoppers at 673-7373 or by logging onto the crimestoppers website at www.crimestoppersshreveportcaddo.com.

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