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Page A-6 - She~ton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 This still image from sur- veillance video Sunday night at Domino's Pizza in Shelton captures the sus- pect in an armed robbery at the restaurant on North who remained at large as of the Shelton-Mason County Journal's deadline, is de- scribed as 5-foot-lO light- skinned male in his mid 20s, Photo courtesy of She~ton Police Department. By Michael Heinbach michael@masoncounty com Shelton Police Chief Darrin Moody can't recall a similar incident in his nearly five years on the job in Shelton. Domino's Pizza area manager Christie Odekirk says the ownership group of the Shelton store hasn't seen something like it in 30 years of owning the Shelton franchise. Regardless, all can agree that employees and law enforcement responded properly Sunday night af- ter an alleged gunpoint robbery at the North First Street restaurant. "We were just talking about that, and since I've been here, and I'm trying hard to remember the last time a business was robbed with a gun," Moody told the Shelton-Mason County Journal on Tuesday. "I'm not saying we haven't had gun crimes, but some- thing like this is a rare occurrence here." According to a news release issued Monday morn- ing by Moody, at about 6:45 p.m. Sunday, a male armed with a black semiautomatic handgun de- manded cash from employees working at the store. The suspect, described as a 5-foot-10 light-skinned male, possibly in his mid-20s, grabbed a "small amount of cash" before he fled on foot. A still image taken from surveillance video at the Store shows the suspect .wearing a distinc- tive hooded sweatshirt and camouflage-style cargo pants. Though Shelton Police, with the help of Ma- son County Sheriffs Office personnel, quickly estab- lished a perimeter around the area and a K-9 search was initiated, the alleged robber remained at large as of Tuesday afternoon. Odekirk, Domino's area manager the last 2 years and the sister and sister-in-law of the fran- chise's owners they also own the Domino's fran- chise in Hoquiam said all employees are trained on what to do in the event of a robbery. She says there were about 25 employees total working Sun- day. 'We train (employees) to comply - don't fight, don't argue, just give them what they want and get them out the door." Odekirk said. "The safety of our employees is our No. I priority, but my staff handled it perfectly. I don't think that in a situation like that it could have gone any better. Most of the crew that was working in the store at the time didn't even know it was happening because it was so busy." Moody and Odekirk both declined to specify ex- actly how much money the alleged robber got away with, but both said it wasn't much. "Not a lot of people pay for things with cash any- more and with cash drops and everything, cash on hand was pretty limited," Moody said. "What he got away with was pretty minimal." Because there's no nearby highway to the store for the purpose of a fast getaway, Moody said he be- lieves the suspect is local to the area. Odekirk concurred. "I do believe that it is somebody local and due to the snow, we were one of the only businesses down- town that was open at the time." Odekirk said. "And he was on foot, so I do believe that he was local." Moody added investigators have yet to find a link to the suspect through similar robberies in the area, such as a Feb. 1 armed robbery at an Olympia Papa Murphys pizza restaurant. On Tuesday morn- ing, Shelton Police were in the process of reviewing surveillance video from the time of the robbery from neighboring Shelton businesses. "At this point we haven't found any relation to anything similar, not to say that we won't," Moody said. '~We put it out to law enforcement agencies throughout western Washington. We're working with our partners everywhere to get this taken care of."