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Police are searching for the armed suspect in a midday robbery at an east Charlotte grocery store.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said a man with a handgun entered the Food Lion in a shopping center on Idlewild Road near the intersection of East W.T. Harris Boulevard, just after 3 p.m. Thursday.
The man robbed the store, police said, and then fled. He was last seen running toward the Piney Grove neighborhood.
Police didn't say how much money the suspect took.
On Thursday night, police released surveillance photos that show a hooded man approaching an employee at a cash register at the front of the store. He appears to be holding a gun.
The suspect was described as a black male who is 5-feet-5 to 5-feet-8 with a medium build and a mustache. He wore a black hooded shirt, black pants with a gold design on the back left pocket and black sneakers with white soles, police said.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.
