By DEANNA BOYD, Staff writer
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Police are searching for a man who robbed the manager of a Wal-Mart in east Fort Worth on Thursday morning while disguised in a ski mask and armed with a Taser-type weapon.
The robbery occurred about 7 a.m. at the Wal-Mart at 6500 Meadowbrook Drive.
Witnesses told police that the suspect — described as a thin black man wearing a red ski mask and dressed in black clothing — walked up behind the store’s manager as the man carried the store’s payroll bag toward an office area. The robber demanded the manager give him the bag, pointing a Taser-type weapon at him.
The manager began to run away but the robber gave chase, police said. The manager dropped the bag while running, and the robber grabbed it and ran out of the store to a waiting getaway vehicle behind the business and driven by an accomplice. Police say the suspects made off with an estimated $20,000.
A witness in the parking lot followed the fleeing car, providing its description and license plate number and telling 911 dispatchers that it had pulled into the Bentley Square Apartments near Interstate 30 and Eastchase Parkway, police said.
Officers arrived to find the car leaving the complex. The driver was pulled over and was being questioned by detectives this morning to determine whether he was the driver of the getaway vehicle.
The robber remains at large, according to police.
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