LEXINGTON, N.C. — Lexington police are investigating after an undisclosed amount of people drove a car into a gun shop on South Main Street and robbed the store.
Investigators responded to the robbery after the suspects crashed a car into the business Sunday.
Police said the suspects drove their car into M&T's Pawn and Gun Shop before robbing the store around 2 a.m. Sunday.
The gun shop owner, Mark Richardson, told WFMY that the car used in this incident was stolen.
Thieves are seen on surveillance video crashing into the building and stealing a handful of guns.
"We’ve got them all cabled down. They didn’t get any of those, any of the long guns any of the AR-15s, or anything like that,“ Richardson explained.
Richardson said his shop used to be in another building, where a couple of robberies took place.
He said he actually moved to this new building a few years ago to prevent incidents like this. But it didn’t stop a couple of people early Sunday morning.
"This place is pretty secure, bars on the windows and everything else that the only way probably they could’ve ever gotten in is by doing that. We are going to take measures so that doesn’t happen again, we’re trying to keep the guns out of criminal's hands as much as we can,“ Richardson said.
Owner of Elite Arms in Thomasville, Debra Davis says they’ve had several people try and break into their business.
Davis explained, “almost happened, almost happened about six times now we are lucky they can’t get in.”
She along with M&T's Pawn and Gun Shop takes extra precautions to ensure no one can get in.
"The doors and windows are double-barred, the back has the big steel bars that are bolted and across the back, there’s not any window or door that isn’t completely secure,“ Davis said.
M&T's Pawn and Gun Shop said they are cleaning and making repairs to the building but plan to get things up and running again sometime next week.
The investigation is ongoing.
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