Pasco elementary locked down for an hour while police hunted for a pizza store robber
Pasco police were continuing to hunt Thursday evening for a suspect in an afternoon robbery on Court Street.
The man walked into a Papa Murphy’s pizza shop and pulled a gun on workers shortly after 2:30 p.m.
According to initial reports, he held the clerks at gunpoint, demanded money and then ran out with an undisclosed amount of cash. The store is on the 1800 block of Court Street.
Officers were using a police dog to search for the robber, who was wearing a black leather coat with black shoes and a brown baseball cap.
Robert Frost Elementary School locked its doors for about an hour as police scoured the area. Students were kept inside the school until around 3:30 p.m.
Emerson Elementary students who normally walk home in the area of 20th and Court also were kept at their school. Other students were allowed to board their buses for home.
Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to call police at 509-628-0333.
This story was originally published November 14, 2019 at 3:05 PM.