( KRON ) — A brazen daylight armed robbery at a 76 gas station in Oakland was caught on surveillance camera video. In the video, a gray four-door sedan can be seen pulling up at a pump across from a white SUV.
A hooded individual exits the sedan and opens the read of the SUV. Other individuals exit the sedan and assist the first individual in removing the victims’ property. Another hooded individual can be seen exiting the car and pointing a firearm at the victims’ vehicle.
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A bystander in the background raises their hands at the site of the gun.
The hooded subjects then get back into the gray car and speed off with the victims’ property.
(Watch the incident in the video player above)
According to the parents of one victim, one of the suspects smashed the back window of the SUV and pistol-whipped one of the victims.
“He puts it to my son’s chest and starts hitting him on the chest and on the waist with a gun, and my son had on watches and bracelets, and they start pulling those things off from him,” said Maxey Scherr, the mother of one of the victims. “They put their hands, I’m sorry, they put their hands into his pocket, and they start screaming and yelling at him. Another gunman goes to the passenger and does the same. They go into the window and stat reaching into his pants. They took everything these kids had. They took their luggage they took my son’s cellphone.”