Robbery suspect pulls rings from Galleria jewelry store employee's fingers, HPD says

Thursday, September 2, 2021
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston police need your help identifying a man wanted in connection with the robbery of a jewelry store in the Galleria last month.

HPD's Robbery Division released surveillance video of the man running out of the store on Aug. 3.
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You can watch the surveillance video footage in the video player above.

Police say a man walked into the store and asked to see a couple of rings in a display case. When an employee showed them to the man, he forcibly grabbed them from the employee's fingers and ran out of the store and into a parking garage, police said.

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All together, the rings were valued at $3,600.
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Police describe the suspect as a Black male in his early 30s, skinny build, weighing 170 to 180 pounds, and is 6 feet 1 inch to 6 feet 3 inches tall. He was wearing a green shirt and black pants.



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