ORLANDO, Fla. — Police are looking for a man who held up a College Park CVS Pharmacy at gunpoint Sunday morning as people celebrated Easter Sunday at the church next to the store.
Officers said the man had a handgun and stormed the store, making all customers and employees get on the floor just after 9 a.m.
Surveillance video shows the gunman was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and had his face covered.
The video showed the gunman taking clerk Barry White to the back of the store and to the manager, who then opened the safe.
"Of course it's scary. I wasn't thinking anything other than it's a man with a gun," said White.
The masked gunman also came face-to-face with two female customers and ordered them to the ground.
As they feared for their lives, the robber instructed them not to cry and that they wouldn’t be hurt.
The man then fled the scene in a car.
Scott Kinkade and dozens of others were heading in to Easter Sunday services across the street on Edgewater Drive when Orlando police began searching for the robber.
"You never know what somebody is going to do," Kinkade said. "I'd like to see them catch whoever this is."
For the past few months, law enforcement across Orange County has been hunting for a serial CVS robber.
Surveillance video from other holdups shows a man committing similar robberies at other stores.
Last week, Channel 9 obtained a composite sketch of the man who police said may also be responsible for Sunday’s crime.
"Detectives will collaborate with Orange County or other jurisdictions to see if this is the guy," said Vince Ogburn, with the Orlando Police Department.
Authorities fear the robber may get desperate and eventually hurt someone.
"Any time you have desperate people that are in need financially, they’re going to do desperate things," said the College Park United Methodist Church’s pastor, Joshua Beaty.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office said the same man may be responsible for over two dozen business robberies in the metro area.
Anyone with information about Sunday's robbery is asked to call Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS. There is a $10,000 reward being offered.
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