McComb police are investigating three store robberies in McComb on Sunday — two of them at Walmart and another at a convenience store on Presley Boulevard.
Detective Shannon Sullivan said on Monday that the department has not determined that any of the robberies were linked, and no arrests have been made.
The first incident was at Walmart around 6 a.m. Sullivan said a black male wearing a long-sleeved white shirt under a striped shirt, a white Rocawear ball cap, black tennis shoes and blue jeans asked for help with a Trac phone and card. When the clerk began to check out the man’s merchandise, Sullivan said the robber told the clerk he had a gun. The robber demanded money, but never displayed a gun.
“He did not harm the clerk, and he walked out the front door and appears to have gotten into a white four-door passenger car and left the scene at 6:14 a.m.,” Sullivan said.
In the second incident, a black male wearing a white ball cap, blue jeans, black shoes and a horizontal striped short-sleeved shirt entered BK Shell Kwik Stop at 214 W. Presley around 2:30 p.m.
Sullivan said the suspect came in the south entrance to the store, allowed other customers to be waited on then asked the clerk for a shirt behind the counter to buy.
“She moved to get the shirt, the suspect jumped over the counter, knocking display racks over,” Sullivan said, adding that the robber did not display a weapon.
And around 10:20 p.m., police received another call from Walmart, where a clerk had been robbed by a black man wearing a black long-sleeved shirt, dark ball cap, blue jeans and black tennis shoes.
This robber also asked the clerk for a Trac phone and phone card. Sullivan said when the clerk began to ring the customer up, he displayed a long-blade knife and demanded that the clerk open the register. The robber grabbed money and left the store through the west exit into the parking lot.
Sullivan said officers are collecting evidence from all three incidents, but they have not made assumptions whether all the robberies were carried out by the same suspect.
Sunday’s robberies followed the Feb. 24 robbery of Blue Sky on Delaware Avenue, where a black male pulled a gun on the convenience store clerk who was ringing him up and fled with cash and tobacco products.
No arrests have been made in that case, Sullivan said, and the department has not been able to confirm any leads.
