Des Plaines mobile phone store robbed at gunpoint

Des Plaines police say two men, one armed with an handgun, took phones and cash from a mobile phone store during a daylight robbery Friday.

According to police, the men entered the Boost Mobile store on the 1100 block of Lee Street at 12:22 p.m. Friday and posed as customers.

While a store clerk showed them phone chargers, one of the men pulled out a dark-colored gun and the offenders began to empty out the cash drawer, police said.

During the holdup, police said, a customer entered the store. The armed robber pointed the gun at the customer, who then walked back out of the business, according to police.

After taking cash and phones, the robbers left the store and ran across Algonquin Road to an older, dark-colored Jeep, possibly a Cherokee, and drove off south on Lee, police said.

Police described one robber as a black male in his early 20s, standing 5 feet, 6 inches tall with a skinny build and short hair. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt. The second man is a black male between 16 and 18 years old, standing 5 feet, 3 inches tall with a skinny build and short hair.