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Two gun-toting bandits allegedly fled with more than $270,000 in an armed robbery at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York, on Saturday evening.

A woman was reportedly robbed at gunpoint outside her apartment door in Oakland, California, on Monday night. 

A suspect in Warren, Michigan, was hospitalized Wednesday after an alleged robbery ended in a shootout with a homeowner.

An alleged gang member who was out on $6,000 bail for 34 counts of armed robbery and assault has been accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.

A bar customer did not bat an eye when a suspect pointed a gun at him and proceeded to rob the place in St. Louis, Missouri, on Wednesday morning.  

A MetroPCS store clerk shot and killed an alleged armed robber Monday afternoon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A trio of armed robbers allegedly held up a jewelry store in Manhattan’s Diamond District on a Sunday afternoon, according to video footage of the incident.

A concealed carry permit holder in Charlotte, North Carolina, shot and killed a robbery suspect at a 7-Eleven early Thursday morning.

Three Baltimore teenagers have been arrested and charged with allegedly robbing a woman at gunpoint as she was holding her five-week-old son.

A gas station clerk near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, said he shot and killed one of two robbery suspects after they allegedly pointed a gun at him and took money.

An armed robbery suspect in Jacksonville, Arkansas, was shot and fatally wounded by an Express Mart gas station clerk.

Louisiana’s St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office says an armed robber entered a drug store Monday, demanded drugs, and was shot dead.

A Katy, Texas, man used his gun to stop two armed robbers from stealing his wife’s purse when they came out of a grocery store. The man shot both of the alleged robbers, causing them to flee.

A former Marine working as a bartender in Altoona, Pennsylvania, tackled an armed suspect Tuesday and foiled a robbery.

Police in South Carolina say a man dressed as a woman tried to rob a mobile phone store and was shot by the clerk.

A violent London gang which terrorised businesses with a fake handgun, hammer, and samurai sword in a campaign of “frightening armed robberies” has been jailed.

A team of gunmen tried to rob a jewelry store in this border city by holding a police officer and several shoppers at gunpoint. Despite no shots being fired, the robbery caused panic among local residents as various social media users and journalists claimed that the robbery was an active shooter situation.

Police announced Monday that they are searching for two suspects caught on video robbing a Vietnam veteran at gunpoint in broad daylight while he was sitting on the front porch of his Detroit home.

Police in Bountiful, Utah, released surveillance video showing a pawn shop owner break away from an armed suspect, retrieve a gun, and shoot the suspect dead.

Just one in ten London knife robberies was solved by police last year, data has shown, as leftist Mayor Sadiq Khan finally speaks up on the problem, begged the public to help police the city.

Florida’s Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) says a concealed carrier was able to pull his gun and fatally shoot an assailant while being robbed at gunpoint Tuesday morning.

Two teenagers acted as a “twisted tag team”, raping a woman at her home, behind a mosque and in an alleyway at gunpoint, in what police called a “disgusting, heartless attack”.

Police investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect who allegedly slit the throat of a man as he attempted to protect his wife during a robbery and kidnapping attempt. The man survived the brutal attack by a man police investigators say is “as dangerous as they get.”

A Texas teenager has been accused of murder for allegedly shooting and killing her boyfriend during an armed robbery on New Year’s Eve.

HOUSTON, Texas — A grandmother stopped a would-be Christmas week jewelry robbery by shoving the perpetrator out the door of the store. The suspect attempted to shove his way through as the employees entered to prepare the Galleria-area shop.

A Mississippi teenager has been charged after he allegedly stabbed a woman in the neck and chest, cut off her ear, and stole her car Tuesday evening.

Two unarmed store owners thwarted an armed robbery when they fought off two men with handguns. Police report no injuries from the incident but the two would-be robbers eventually escaped.

A robbery suspect in Brazil entered a convenience store and drew his gun, only to be shot multiple times in a situation in which everyone was armed.

A man is accused of killing a Chicago actress and mother of two after a video surfaced of him allegedly pawning off her jewelry two hours after the murder took place.

A violent, armed gang of robbers have been jailed after using Islamic burqas to hide their identities as they stole hundreds of thousands of pounds in raids across Manchester.