CHICAGO – Police are searching for a gunman who threatened a massacre Tuesday morning while robbing a Chicago restaurant.
Surveillance video from the Jamaica Island Restaurant, located at 51st and South Halsted in the city’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, shows the gunman entering the restaurant around 9 a.m.
He ordered the three workers into the kitchen and forced them to lay on the floor, then locked them in a bathroom.
He threatened to kill all three of the workers several times, the employees said.
WANTED– In gunpoint robbery, Back of the Yards. "He said he was gonna kill everybody." @WGNNews at 9 pic.twitter.com/d5RhKPcWEQ
— Tom Negovan (@WGNNegovan) February 1, 2017
The suspect took cash from the restaurant and one of the victims and used a delivery truck to get away.
No one was injured.
Anyone with any information is asked to call police.
