Business owners in Brighton Heights nervous about recent burglaries

BRIGHTON HEIGHTS, Pa. — Business owners in Brighton Heights are feeling nervous after one store was robbed and another was burglarized within just about a month.

"I think we will have this person in jail," said Bill Goodrich, a landlord who owns buildings that span an entire block. "From the looks and the sounds of it my thoughts are he saw one person in there, said, ‘I need some cash’ and he went in and took it."

Business owners told Channel 11 there are lots of surveillance pictures of a man who robbed the Metro PCS store at gunpoint in broad daylight Tuesday afternoon and those pictures are good, though police have not released any images or video.

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Police told us two customers were in the store when a man with a scarf covering his face pointed a silver gun at the clerk and demanded money

After he got the cash, police say, he took off on foot, running up California Avenue toward Davis Avenue

“It's very unusual to see that up here in Brighton Heights," Goodrich, who also is a business owner, and lawyer, told channel 11. He said one business was burglarized a few months ago, but armed holdups are rare.

He credits the number of security cameras mounted up and down the street and watchful neighbors.

Police have not yet identified the gunman.

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