GASTONIA, N.C. — Investigators from Charlotte to Gastonia are pushing to solve two violent robberies caught on camera at two gas stations within the past month.
Gastonia Police released a surveillance picture Thursday night of a masked gunman who robbed the Jakobs' Food Mart off Gaston Avenue back on May 16. Investigators said the suspect got away with around $200 to $300 in cash.
Meanwhile, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police and the FBI continue to hunt for the man who killed a popular gas station clerk in west Charlotte earlier this week.
Detectives said a masked robbed Shell off Freedom Drive before shooting and killing 50-year-old Ishmael Doumbia while he was working the overnight shift.
"Ismael has been part of this community, part of this store, part of my family; I call him a brother," Mohamed Darwish, the store's owner, said. "We are just devastated and heartbroken by the loss."
Gastonia Police ask anyone with information on the Jakobs' Food Mart robbery to call Detective M.B. Watts at 704-866-6885 or Crime Stoppers of Gaston County at 704-861-8000.
CMPD and the FBI are offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in Doumbia's murder. The department asks anyone with information in the case to call Charlotte Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.