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Suspects Rob 7-Eleven at Gunpoint in East Orange

East Orange

An armed robbery of a local 7-Eleven store in East Orange has police investigating.

There were no physical injuries reported in the early morning incident that had police at the store located in the 90's block of Hawthorne Avenue at Central Avenue before 3:10 a.m.

City officials would not respond to requests for general information regarding the robbery, but according to on the scene reports, two black males stormed into the establishment armed with a gun wearing hoodies and masks when they demanded cash from employees.

The men reportedly took less than a hundred dollars in cash before they fled the scene.

Detectives were observed inside the establishment a short time after the robbery.

The suspects remain at-large.

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