Bronx, NY – Police are searching for a man who threatened a store employee with a baseball bat after stealing merchandise from a business on Westchester Avenue Monday morning.
According to investigators, the suspect entered a commercial establishment at 2026 Westchester Avenue around 9:15 a.m., took several items, and tried to leave without paying. When a 60-year-old woman confronted him, he displayed a baseball bat and threatened her before fleeing the scene on foot.
No injuries were reported, and the suspect remains at large. He is described as a male last seen wearing a brown sweatshirt, brown sweatpants, and white sneakers.
Detectives from the 43rd Precinct are investigating and urging anyone with information to contact the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.
A quiet morning at a Bronx shop turned tense when a thief turned a bat into a weapon of fear.