PASADENA >> Two robbers held up a Lake Avenue market at gunpoint late Saturday, Pasadena police officials said.
The 7:40 p.m. robbery unfolded at a market in the 1500 block of North Lake Avenue, Pasadena police Lt. Vasken Gourdikian said.
One of the two robbers was armed with a handgun and pointed it at the clerk, a 55-year-old man, while demanding money, the lieutenant said. They fled on foot after receiving an undisclosed amount of cash from the store’s register.
Police described the robbers as two black men, both between 19 and 25 years old, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and of thin build.
The clerk was not injured during the crime, unlike a worker at another Pasadena store who was shot and wounded during a robbery Friday evening.
In Friday’s 7 p.m. robbery at Pepe’s Video & Wireless, less than two miles away at 313 E. Orange Grove Blvd., a man in his 50s who was working as an attendant suffered a gunshot wound to his shoulder while two men robbed the business, Lt. Ed Calatayud said. No other injuries were reported.
The robbers in the Orange Grove Boulevard crime were described as two black men wearing all black clothing. One was about 300 pounds, while the other was thin, police said.
It was not clear Sunday if there was a connection between the two armed robberies.
When will the powers that be, the police, city government and local neighborhoods rid this one small area of Pasadena of the criminals that inhabit it? When!
Too busy with speed traps.