PITTSBURGH — An employee was injured during a robbery when he arrived for his work shift at a Brookline dry cleaning business Tuesday morning.
Pittsburgh police were called Chuong’s Cleaners on Brookline Boulevard for a reported robbery. When officers arrived, they found a man lying on the ground, holding his head in his hands.
The victim told officers that two male suspects were likely already inside when he arrived for work and opened for the day.
Police said that when the suspects saw the employee, one of them struck him with a fire extinguisher and stole his wallet.
“They hit him over the head with a fire extinguisher, apparently. They knocked him out,” owner Elaine Chuong said.
Elaine Chuong and her husband Joe have owned the business for more than 20 years.
They believe the perpetrators got in through a bathroom window on the second floor. They told Channel 11 someone broke in last summer through a different bathroom window that has since been secured.
“We don’t know if these are different people or the same group of people,” Chuong said.
The assault was the second incident in two days.
On Monday, the same employee who was assaulted, called to tell the owners he had found items missing when he got to work.
The Chuongs say security cameras were gone, wires were cut, tools were missing and $800 was taken from the register.
The injured employee is in stable condition. Elaine says he suffered a concussion.
The Chuongs are already looking to upgrade security.
“We do because there are people who think they can do whatever they want and get away with it [...] and have no consequences.”
Police are looking for two male suspects.
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