State Police Seek Somers Armed Robber

State police are looking for an armed robber who robbed a gas station convenience store in Somers just after midnight Sunday morning.

A man wielding a handgun demanded money at gunpoint from a clerk at the Sunoco Xtra Mart at 169 Main Street in Somers. State police received a 911 call at about 12:29 a.m.

The clerk was not hurt in the armed robbery and the man with the gun ran from the store.

He is described as a 30-year-old who is 5-foot-9 and 180 pounds and who has salt and pepper scruffy facial hair and sunglasses, state police said.

State police ask anyone with information to call detectives at the Troop C barracks in Tolland at 860-896-3200 or 860-896-3230. Calls will remain confidential.

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