Two girls said they were robbed at gunpoint as they walked home after they went to a north Tulsa corner store for snacks.
Lateesia Riveria, 13, and Evelynn Sandoval, 9, said they were robbed as they walked two blocks between the corner store and a nearby home.
They said two men standing outside the store said something to them on their way inside. The girls said they couldn’t hear the men, but they felt uncomfortable and hurried inside to get what they wanted.
After they bought their snacks, the girls said they didn’t see the men outside.
They followed a path home through a field behind the store and said they saw something move behind some nearby bushes.
The girls said the same two men then jumped out and held a gun to one girl’s chest and a knife to the other’s face, demanding that they give them all their belongings.
The girls said the robbers got away with a bag of snacks, a cellphone and about $5 in change.
The store’s owner said he was furious to learn what happened and shared surveillance footage with KOKI.
The footage shows the two men standing outside the door as the girls walk in, leaving toward the back of the store, returning to look through the store window and then hurrying out of sight.
The video does not appear to give enough detail to identify the men, but it appears to back up the girls’ story.
Both robbers appeared to be in their late teens, police said.
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