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Police: Woman with gun who robbed convenience store may have done it before

BRACKENRIDGE, Pa. — Police are using surveillance video from a Brackenridge convenience store to try to identify the woman who robbed it at gunpoint early Thursday.

Fueland was robbed at about 12:30 a.m.

The video shows the woman, who was wearing a grey sweat suit with a star emblem on the chest and a yellow hat, enter the store.

Police said she pointed a gun at the cashier and demanded money from the register before running out of the store towards Mile Lock Lane.

She escaped with $54.

Five days earlier, the Marathon gas station in nearby Tarentum was robbed by a woman who police said could be the same suspect.

Anyone who recognizes her should call Brackenridge police.