SAYREVILLE — A Quick Chek convenience store clerk was robbed at gunpoint late Friday, according to police.
Around 11:40 p.m., a Hispanic male entered the store on Washington Road in the Parlin section, picked out a can of Sprite and placed it near the cash register. The suspect told the 56-year-old store employee that he might want something else and began to survey the store.
A second man was purchasing items at the counter, according to the report. After that man left, the Hispanic man approached the counter to pay for the soda.
He then reached into his waistband and pulled out an automatic handgun, possibly a 9 mm, the employee later told the police.
The suspect repeatedly told the clerk to remain calm and demanded that he hand over the stacks of 10- and 5-dollar bills in the register. The employee handed over the money and the suspect left.
The suspect wore a black hooded sweatshirt over a white T-shirt and black pants.
Police were able to view a surveillance video taken from a camera inside the store, according to Sayreville Police Detective Mathew Bandurski, one of the officers who responded to the incident.
Police said the suspect may have known the other customer who left before the robbery, as the surveillance tape shows that the suspect may have uttered something to the man as he left the counter.
The amount of money taken in the robbery was not known at the time of report.
The incident remains under investigation by the police.