Six brazen robbers armed with a fire extinguisher looted a Chanel store in Washington, D.C., on Sunday and made off with $250,000 in merchandise, police said.
Shocking surveillance footage shows the group entering the luxury retail store around 5:30 p.m. and grabbing as many bags as they could in their arms.
One of the thieves used the fire extinguisher that he sprayed violently to distract the employees, who were only 30 minutes away from closing the luxury store for the day.
An armed security guard employed by Chanel fired a bullet at the fleeing robbers as they ran off with their loot, but the bullet whizzed past the targets. according to the commander of the second district. Tatjana Savoy of the Metropolitan Police Department.
The six thieves got back into a white sedan that they had quietly left outside with the lights on for the robbery.
They lifted about 99 designer bags, police said. The loot was worth about a quarter of a million dollars, Fox 5 reported.
Shocking surveillance footage shows the group entering the luxury retail store around 5:30 p.m. and grabbing as many bags as they could in their arms. FOX News One of the thieves deployed the fire extinguisher to distract employees, who had just 30 minutes left to close the luxury store for the day. FOX News Thieves stole around 99 designer handbags worth approximately a quarter of a million dollars. Fox News
Police are still searching for the six robbers, two of whom held the door while four others entered, Savoy said.
The suspect wielding a fire extinguisher did not hit anyone with the weapon.
“They used the fire extinguisher, the agent, and they used it to distract the employees to take merchandise,” Savoy said.
The six thieves got back into a white sedan that they had quietly left outside with the lights on for the robbery. FOX News Police are still searching for the six robbers, two of whom held the door while four others entered, Savoy said. FOX News MPD is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspects. Fox News
MPD is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspects.
Chanel’s security guard is also under investigation for possible use of force, according to Savoy.
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