When a Subway employee couldn’t open a safe for an armed robber, an already tense situation turned even more violent.
Milton police are looking for a man they say entered the Morris Road location and held up the employee as he was washing dishes, eventually punching him and locking him in a cooler.
According to a police report, a man entered the restaurant about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday through the front door and locked it behind him, before jamming a gun into the victim’s rib cage.
The suspect then demanded money. The victim gave the man $170, which was supposed to go to the bank the next morning, according to the report. The man also gave the suspect $200 from the cash register.
But that wasn’t enough.
The suspect then directed the man to two safes and demanded more cash.
The victim was able to give him $250 from one of the safes, but when he couldn’t open the second one, the suspect “punched (the employee) in the face, shoulder and arm to get (him) to open the safe,” according to the police report.
And when that didn’t work, “the suspect picked up (the victim) by the arm and forced him into the large walk-in cooler in the back of Subway,” according to the report.
The suspect locked and closed the cooler and left the store, but the employee was able to escape and call his manager, who then called 911.
The suspect was described as 6-foot-2 and wearing a dark gray hoodie with a black mask, gloves and pants, according to police.
But with few clues, police may not be able to make an arrest.
“Because there were gloves and a mask worn, there isn’t much DNA or anything to pick up from there and certainly not a face to pass around and see if people know who it is,” Milton police spokesman Capt. Charles Barstow told Channel 2 Action News.
Surveillance footage shows the incident, but not of the direction the suspect went when he left the restaurant, according to police. There are also no witnesses.
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