April 2, 2021- 8:37 p.m
NEW YORK — A gunpoint robbery was caught on camera inside the lobby of a Staten Island hotel. It happened around 6:30 a.m. Monday inside a Hilton Garden Inn on South Avenue.
Surveillance video shows the suspect walk behind the front desk with a gun drawn and force an employee to open a drawer.
The gunman entered the lobby and headed toward the front desk. He then went behind the desk and pointed a gun at the hotel concierge, making the concierge empty the cash drawer. The gunman and his accomplice then exited the building in a white SUV.
Police said the gun went off while he and another man made off with $1,500 in cash.
No one was injured. The suspects fled the scene in a white Mercedes, police said.
