3 Robbed Outside Convenience Store

The Johnston County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the armed robbery of three people outside a convenience store. The victim’s had stopped to use a payphone outside Dean’s Grocery on Highway 39 when three men approached, one armed with a shotgun, and demanded their money. Another vehicle pulled in the parking lot during the robbery and the suspect armed with the weapon pointed it at the driver of the car and demanded he leave. The suspects fled moments later in a gray passenger car with chrome rims. None of the victims were injured.