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player ready...Police are searching for two men who robbed a Lincolnwood jewelry store at gunpoint July 29 at a busy intersection during Friday afternoon rush hour.
Two masked offenders entered Baladna Jewelry on the 4300 block of Touhy Avenue shortly before 6 p.m., and made off with $100,000 in gold and jewelry after they threatened the owner and his wife with a black semi-automatic handgun, according to Lincolnwood Police Detective Eric Gronlund.
Security footage from inside the store shows one man wearing a white mask and the other wearing all black. The footage showed one of them pointing a gun toward the two employees, ordering them to get on the floor, while the other man emptied a safe containing cash and gold into a bag, Gronlund said.
Police did not know whether the men, who fled through the store’s back door, left in a vehicle or on foot. The offenders, who police identified as male based on the sound of their voices recorded by the security camera, were in the store for less than three minutes,
Because the men were wearing gloves, police said they were unable to identify their races. Both were described as between 5 feet and 10 inches tall, and 6-feet tall, with slender builds. They were last seen walking northbound on Lowell Avenue immediately after the robbery.
Gronlund said the robbers committed a brazen act, striking a store in a busy strip mall during broad daylight where they risked being seen by the many commuters who use Touhy to access the nearby Edens Expressway.
“We’re hoping that someone driving by may have seen something,” Gronlund said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Lincolnwood Police Department at 847-673-2167.
Natalie Hayes is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.