Police seek suspect in Amerimart robbery

Police are looking for the man who robbed a Cape Girardeau gas station Sunday evening.

About 6:35 p.m., officers received a call about a robbery in progress at Amerimart, 1320 W. Cape Rock Drive, said Sgt. Rick Schmidt of the Cape Girardeau Police Department.

The suspect, described as a white man with a scruffy beard, wearing a gray T-shirt, jeans and a beanie, told a clerk he had a gun, took an undisclosed amount of cash and fled on foot, Schmidt said.

The suspect did not display a firearm, Schmidt said, but he claimed to have one.

Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call the Cape Girardeau Police Department at 335-6621 or the Crime Stoppers hotline at 339-6312.

Pertinent address:

1320 W. Cape Rock Drive, Cape Girardeau, Mo.