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Staten Island convenience store robbed at gunpoint

Adam Devine
Adam Devine
It was reported to police that on Sunday, January 22, 2023, at approximately 1920 hours, an unidentified individual entered Armstrong Convenience located at 4203 Hylan Boulevard. The individual displayed a firearm and demanded CBD vape products from a 48-year-old male store employee. The employee did not comply and the individual discharged a firearm multiple times in the direction of the 48-year-old male store employee and an unidentified male customer who had just entered the store. The victims were not struck by gunfire. The individual was last seen fleeing on foot northbound on Armstrong Avenue.
It was reported to police that on Sunday, January 22, 2023, at approximately 1920 hours, an unidentified individual entered Armstrong Convenience located at 4203 Hylan Boulevard. The individual displayed a firearm and demanded CBD vape products from a 48-year-old male store employee. The employee did not comply and the individual discharged a firearm multiple times in the direction of the 48-year-old male store employee and an unidentified male customer who had just entered the store. The victims were not struck by gunfire. The individual was last seen fleeing on foot northbound on Armstrong Avenue.

NEW YORK, NY – A man armed with a gun entered a Staten Island convenience store on Sunday but was refused by the store employee. According to police, at around 7:30 pm, the suspect entered Armstrong Convenience on Hyland Boulevard and demanded CBD vape products from the store clerk at gunpoint.

The man pulled a gun and pointed it at the 48-year-old store employee, but the employee did not comply with the man’s threats. The suspect then fired his gun several times in the direction of the worker but did not strike him.

A customer inside the store dropped to the ground for cover when the shooting began. He was also not injured.


Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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