An Arizona Shake Shack employee has been charged after authorities say he held up the very restaurant the place he was employed, threatened two colleagues with a gun, locked them inside a walk-in cooler after which confirmed up for a shift in uniform two days later.
Keondre Simmons, 33, allegedly known as out of his job on the Shake Shack in Kierland Commons in Phoenix round midnight on Aug. 3, then returned to the situation later that morning to hold out the armed theft, in keeping with courtroom paperwork reviewed by FOX 10 Phoenix.
Officers investigating the theft have been instructed that an worker had opened a rear supply entrance after listening to a bell and assuming a scheduled supply had arrived on the restaurant.
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Keondre Simmons, 33, is accused in courtroom paperwork of robbing the Phoenix Shake Shack the place he labored at gunpoint, then returning to the restaurant in uniform two days later. (Maricopa County Sheriff’s Workplace; iStock)
“[The employee] opened the door after listening to the supply bell, believing a scheduled supply had arrived,” the courtroom paperwork say.
“When the door opened, the suspect pointed a firearm at [the employee], ordered him inside, and escorted him at gunpoint towards the walk-in cooler. The suspect compelled [the employee] inside and locked the cooler door.”
Police stated the gunman then confronted the supervisor on responsibility, compelled him into the workplace and ordered him to open the restaurant’s secure.
“[The on-duty manager] unlocked the secure and, underneath menace of firearm, eliminated roughly $2,800 in combined denominations and positioned it right into a black gun case-style container the suspect carried,” police wrote. “The suspect subsequently compelled [the on-duty manager] into the walk-in cooler with [the employee], and efficiently locked the door.”
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Investigators stated each victims ultimately managed to flee the cooler, however the suspect returned moments later, escorted them to the workplace and ordered them to kneel at gunpoint.
“The suspect took each victims’ cellphones and the workplace landline, then destroyed them by throwing them right into a sink stuffed with water. The suspect then exited the enterprise via the rear supply door,” police wrote.
Investigators later recognized Simmons because the suspect, in keeping with the courtroom paperwork.
Two days after the theft, Simmons allegedly returned to the Shake Shack carrying his work uniform, the place police arrested him.
A Shake Shack worker allegedly stole roughly $2,800 from the restaurant at Kierland Commons in Phoenix after holding two co-workers at gunpoint, in keeping with courtroom paperwork. (iStock)
Simmons later instructed investigators that he “discarded the clothes worn in the course of the incident, and a firearm is inside his residence,” in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
Simmons faces costs of armed theft, aggravated assault and kidnapping.
He’s scheduled to look in courtroom Aug. 25.
