The brazen daylight armed robbery of a jewelry store at the upscale City Center Bishop Ranch shopping center in San Ramon has left local residents and shop owners shaken.
It happened on Friday around 2:30 p.m. at Heller Jewelers and was recorded by multiple people on their cellphones in addition to the store security cameras.
The videos showed gunmen pointing a gun a security guard who worked for the store. Other robbers could be seen smashing display cases and taking expensive items."It looked unreal for a moment," said Luca Zanet, the general manager at Delarosa, a restaurant located across from the jewelry store."You had to do a double take." "This place was packed with kids," he told KPIX."A lot more than this because was a day off from school, St.
"I feel really bad and I feel really sorry. San Ramon is a really safe city," said Shan Gao, a shopper and San Ramon mother who was at the shopping center on Saturday with her family. "They must have scoped it and checked it out. They knew exactly where they were going. They went in and they went out in two or three minutes," said Zanet. "It's getting worse because the Nike store got hit twice already and then Sunglass Hut, they got hit five times already ."
San Ramon police did not respond to KPIX's request for more information on Friday's robbery and they did not say if anyone was arrested.Da Lin is an award-winning journalist at KPIX 5 News. He joined KPIX 5 in 2012, but has been reporting the news in the Bay Area since 2007. Da grew up in Oakland, and before his return to the Bay Area, he spent five years covering the news at three other television stations in Texas, Southern and Central California.
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