ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — The widely reported case of a man wearing cat ears while robbing a Winter Park McDonald’s took a hop in a slightly different direction when police released the incident report Thursday.
The ears attached to the suspect’s hoodie may look like a cat’s in surveillance footage, but the victims told police they were definitely bunny ears.
During the incident, which happened on Feb. 27 at 12:46 p.m., a man wearing the bunny-eared hoodie, blue pants and flip flops entered the Aloma Avenue restaurant and ordered a small soda, the report said.
He paid with two $1 bills and when the cashier opened the register to get his change, the suspect demanded the cash.
“Give me the money and no one will get hurt,” the man whispered to the McDonald’s employee.
The employee told officers that the man was holding his hands in the pockets of his hoodie as if he had a gun.
When she hesitated, the suspect threatened to “jump over the counter and hurt everyone if you don’t give me the money,” the report said.
The employee handed the man a few bills from under the register and he took them and ran out of the restaurant, officers said.
He ran to a nearby gas station, jumped a concrete wall and was last seen heading toward St. Andrew Boulevard, the report said.
No one was injured in the robbery.
Several intact fingerprints from the suspect, who was not wearing gloves, were recovered from the scene, investigators said.
The same suspect is believed to have been involved in the robbery of a Current clothing store on South Park Avenue the day before.
An investigation into the robbery is ongoing.