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Robbers reported at LR restaurant

Authorities are looking for two robbers who held up the Jimmy John's in downtown Little Rock on Sunday night.

It happened about 11 p.m. at the restaurant at 700 Broadway, according to a Little Rock Police Department report.

An employee told investigators that a robber with a red bandanna over his face displayed a black revolver as he demanded cash. A second assailant who had a red sweater over his face reportedly stood watch by the door.

Surveillance footage captured the two robbers getting into a silver Pontiac Sunfire before fleeing the scene.

No arrests had been made at the time of the report.

The gunman was said to be a slender black male who wore a black hoodie, stood about 6 feet tall and weighed around 150 pounds. The other robber was described as a slender black male who wore a red hoodie. He was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and also weighed around 150 pounds.

Gunmen hold up LR Exxon store

Two people, including one armed with a camouflage shotgun, robbed a Little Rock convenience store late Saturday, police said.

A 33-year-old worker said the pair entered the Exxon at 8601 Fourche Dam Pike around 11:50 p.m. as he was counting cigarettes, according to a Little Rock Police Department report.

That employee, after the pair ordered him to remove money from the store's safe, then ran to the back of the building and locked himself inside a room, he told authorities.

A second worker, a 44-year-old woman, also reported seeing the robbers enter. After hearing one pump the shotgun, she ran to a corner for safety, the employee told police.

Authorities said both robbers jumped a counter and walked to the back of the Exxon, where they found the woman and took her cellphone. The robbers then fled the scene in an unknown direction.

No money was listed as stolen from the safe or cash register.

Yelling in church results in arrest

A 61-year-old man became aggressive with members of a Little Rock church when they confronted him for yelling during a Sunday service, police say.

Alfonso Williams of Mayflower was arrested around 10:30 p.m. on a charge of criminal trespassing at Trumpet in Zion Ministries, 900 S. Pine St., according to a report.

While sitting in the back of the church, Williams yelled, prompting a church member to ask him several times to leave, according to authorities.

When Williams refused, church members reportedly approached and confronted the man. Members of the congregation told police that Williams became aggressive at that point.

Williams' name did not appear in an online inmate roster for the Pulaski County jail as of Monday morning.

He has a court appearance set for Nov. 1.

Robbers take SUV from woman in lot

A 36-year-old Jacksonville woman was robbed at gunpoint of her SUV on Saturday night in the parking lot of a Home Depot in North Little Rock, authorities said.

The victim said she was sitting in her 2016 Kia Sorento outside the store at 4325 E. McCain Blvd., waiting for her husband to get off work, when a man approached shortly before 11 p.m. and asked to borrow her phone, according to a North Little Rock Police Department report. The woman hesitated, at which point a second assailant approached, "put a gun in her face," said he was in a gang and threatened to kill her, the report said.

The woman threw her keys and ran toward the store, police said, noting the two robbers and a third person all got into the SUV and drove off in it.

The robbers were all said to be black males between 16 and 20 years old. The gunman was said to stand about 5 feet 5 inches tall, while the one who asked for the phone stood about 5 feet 10 inches tall.

No arrests had been made at the time of the report.

Hits with gun clip end duo's attack

A teenager hit robbers with a gun clip they had dropped as they "jumped him" at a Little Rock apartment complex, police said.

Officers with the Little Rock Police Department were called around 3:30 a.m. Sunday to Spanish Johns Apartments, 5001 W. 65th St., in reference to a robbery, according to a report.

The 15-year-old victim told police that he had been walking back to the complex from a nearby Raceway convenience store when two people approached.

Both "jumped him," with the two robbers taking turns holding a black handgun and hitting the victim, the report states.

A gun clip fell to the ground, at which point the teen picked it up and began hitting the robbers with it, he told police.

The robbers were able to retrieve the clip and ran toward a building at the front of the apartment complex and eventually into a unit, officers noted.

Listed as stolen from the teen were $40 and an iPhone 6.

One of the assailants was described as 6 feet 4 inches tall with short, braided, black hair, and one was listed as 5 feet 7 inches tall with black hair in a short afro-style haircut.

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No suspects were named, and no arrests had been made at the time of the report.

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