KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A man is jailed after police say he robbed a couple at gunpoint in a parking lot near Portage Street and East Stockbridge Avenue in the Edison Neighborhood on Monday.
Kalamazoo Public Safety officers aren’t saying what the couple offered to sell to the unknown male on Facebook, or if the teenager who jumped into the car and robbed them at gunpoint just before 7 p.m. was the same male they were expecting. He apparently got what he wanted and fled on foot.
Investigators used surveillance video from a nearby business and a description from the victims, a 23-year-old male and a 19-year-old female, to identify the suspect as a 17-year-old Kalamazoo resident.
He was still prowling around the area when a public safety patrol spotted him and took him into custody a short time later. The suspect has been booked into the Kalamazoo County Jail pending arraignment on armed robbery charges and he may also face gun counts.
