Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy and continue to search for two others in connection with the armed robbery of a convenience store during which a pregnant clerk said she was injured.
The robbery happened at a Quike Foodmart at 7013 NE Second Ave.
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Clerk Murshada Khondaker, who is four months pregnant, said she had stepped out from behind protective glass encasing the cashier's counter at the store so she could change a hot food tray when three men attacked her.
"I'm thinking I'm going to die. My head, my eyes is closed," Khondaker said.
Miami police said one of the robbers, whom they identified as Deangelo Joyce, 16, forced Khondaker to the ground at gunpoint, then punched, kicked and hit her in the head with the gun.
The armed men forced Khondaker to turn over the key to the cash register. Miami police said that while Joyce was hitting Khondaker and holding her at gunpoint, one of the other men tried to take cash from the register and the third held the front door.
Khondaker's husband owns the convenience store where the men carried out the crime, despite posted warnings of a stiff penalty and despite surveillance cameras capturing video of every move.
The couple's 5-year-old daughter saw the whole thing.
"My daughter is here. She said, 'Stop doing that. Don't push my mom,'" Khondaker said.
Khondaker said the men got away with only $50. The couple vowed it would be the last time armed thieves got their way at the store.
"It's scary every day, every time, five, six years I am here," Khondaker said. "This morning, me and my husband decided we are going to buy a gun."
Police said Khondaker recognized the man holding her at gunpoint as a customer at the Foodmart, and police sent out a be-on-the-lookout alert. A patrol officer spotted a man fitting the same description walking near Northwest Fourth Avenue and Northwest 71st Street, about four blocks from the store, and took him into custody about an hour and a half after the crime.
Khondaker told police that Joyce bought a 25-cent piece of candy before the robbery.
Police arrested Joyce and charged him with armed robbery, burglary, aggravated battery and assault, all felony charges.
Joyce admitted to buying the candy but denied being involved in the robbery, Miami police said.
Police said they are searching for two other men in connection with the incident. They said both men are in their late teens or possibly early 20s.
"They had one on lookout, one getting the money and one holding down the victim and beating her, so I do believe that these individuals have been involved in other robberies in the past," said Sgt. Freddie Cruz, of the Miami Police Department. "Our detectives are working and looking into that."
Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS (8477).