This hurts my heart to report. What is going on in my hometown!!!!! Just a week after a man attempted to rob Hollister and took a hostage when cornered by police and ultimately ended up dying from a single bullet by an officer, Express was robbed at gunpoint earlier this afternoon. No one was hurt this time, thankfully. Details below. Woodbridge, get it together! PLEASE!
(NJ) – Less than a week after an armed man held a woman hostage inside the Woodbridge Center mall and was killed by an off-duty police officer, the same mall has been victimized by another crime involving a weapon, police said.
Woodbridge police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred today at the Express clothing store on the lower level of the Sears wing of the mall, said township police Capt. Allan Bloodgood.
At 5:27 p.m., police received reports of a gun-wielding bandit who held up employees at the Express store, Bloodgood said.
“A gun was displayed,” Bloodgood said. No one was injured in the robbery, he added.
No other details about the incident, or what the bandit looked like, were available.
Last Thursday, a Woodbridge police officer shot and killed a shoplifter who was fleeing security officers, grabbed a 62-year-old female customer and held a knife to her throat, authorities said.
