BOSTON — Police are looking for a man who held a woman at gunpoint while robbing a Hyde Park convenience store.
The woman, who didn't want to share her name, told Boston 25 News she was working at S.K. Convenience Store around 9 a.m. when a man wearing a mask walked through the doors, went behind the register and held a gun to her head.
"He took his gun from his pocket and then he said, 'OK give me the money. Open the register.'"
The woman tells us all of this was happening with her 5-year-old daughter steps away in the back room.
While the man kept demanding more money, she tried to flag down someone passing outside, waving her hands toward the window.
"He said, 'Don't do that. Don't do that. You're going to be dead. I give you five seconds.' And he said, 'Give me your wallet, I need your wallet.'"
But she says she didn't have her wallet, nor could she open the second cash register. That's when she says the robber got angry.
"I was just screaming because I was scared. He said, 'I give you five seconds, if you don't do what I'm saying then I'm going to kill you. It's five seconds.' And he's just counting the time 1, 2, 3, 4, 5."
She says her young daughter came out after hearing her mother's screams, seeing the robber only from behind.
"My daughter, she got scared, yeah. She came by and then she was shaking," the woman said.
After breaking open the second register, the man ran and the woman called police.
She says she and her husband haven't even owned the store for a month. Now, she's terrified to ever come back.
"I'm so scared. I just, most of the time, I was expecting that I was going to open, I'm going to close the store, but now I'm scared to come in early in the morning and open the store," she said.
In total, the robber only got away with about $150.
Police are investigating. Anyone with information should give them a call.
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