The Chapel Hill Police Department seeks information regarding a strong-armed robbery in the parking lot of Borders Books on Fordham Boulevard on Friday around 5 p.m.
According to police, a suspect grabbed the victim’s purse and pushed her, and a second suspect ran up beside the first suspect before they jumped into the back of a 1999 white Lexus with gold trim and a Maryland license plate. Police described the first suspect as a medium- to dark-skinned black male about five feet 10 to five feet 11 inches tall, overweight with short hair and wearing a grey t-shirt and loose-fitting pants, and the second suspect as a tall, slim black male.
The driver of the car was a light-skinned black male with a mustache and longer hair, and a fourth suspect in the car was identified as a black male, according to police descriptions.
Police ask anyone with information relating to the incident to contact the Chapel Hill Police Department at 968-2760 or Crime Stoppers at 942-7515. Calls to Crime Stoppers are confidential and anonymous and callers may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to arrest.