DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A customer carrying a medical syringe threatened to give an employee HIV at a Durham shoe store Monday night.
The altercation began when an employee noticed the customer stealing merchandise at a New Balance store at Renaissance Center, the shopping center across Fayetteville Road near The Streets at Southpoint. When the employee confronted the suspect, they pulled out a syringe and threatened to give the employee HIV, according to Durham Police Department.
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It's the second such report that police have recently logged.
The incident was recorded as an armed robbery because of the use of a syringe as a weapon.
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Monday morning at a nearby Buffalo Wild Wings, a man robbed someone of roughly $20,000 worth of jewelry at gunpoint before taking off in a car.