The Chevron Food Mart on FM 1130 was robbed at gunpoint Saturday morning after daylight. In addition, Orange police are investigated gunshots fired at triplex apartment at 803 Park Avenue early Friday morning. Bullet holes were found in two apartments and a car trunk.
The robbery was reported at 7:23 Saturday morning at the store, 6932 FM 1130. Police reported the robber was described as a black man in his early to mid 30s, about 5-feet-9 and weighing about 140 pounds. He was wearing a camouflage jacket and black jean pants. He drove away southbound on FM 1130 in a four-door silver car, possibly a Nissan or Saturn. Anyone with information about the robbery should contact the Orange Police Department at 883-1026.
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Friday morning at 9:40 a.m., Officer S. Williams went to 803 Park Avenue after a resident called to report hearing gunshots about 12:30 a.m. The man said he thought he heard four or five gunshots and waited a few minutes. Then he went outside to look and didn’t see anything.
When the man awoke, he saw a bullet hole in his wall and one in a cabinet. A man in another apartment said he also heard gunshots and they found a bullet hole in his wall.
The third resident of the triplex was at work. He came back to the apartment and police found a bullet hole in his trunk that had hit a custom speaker box. Officer Williams said he collected bullets that had been fired.
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Saturday morning at 1:29 a resident at the Cypress Cove Apartments, 3819 Meeks Drive, called to report he had seen a man with a baseball bad go up to a white Dodge SUV in the parking lot and break a window with a bat. Police could not find the owner.
However, the owner found police on Saturday afternoon. A day shift officer reported he was checking a car wash on 16th Street when a man at the vacuum flagged him. The man was cleaning glass from inside a white Dodge SUV with a broken window.
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Also during the weekend, Orange police investigated a burglary at the Shiver Shack, 6896 North Highway 87. The burglar appeared to have gotten inside through a small, sliding glass window on the side of the building. A small safe was missing.
A resident at the apartments at 3333 Ridgemont Friday night reported her wallet was missing from her car. She had left the wallet on a front seat and the car was unlocked.
On Sunday afternoon, a resident in the 1200 block of Hickory Trails reported a Ruger LC9 was missing. She usually kept the pistol in her car.
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