An electrician was robbed at gunpoint in Westport while driving from a job at a Bridgeport bodega and the suspect stole the money he had just been paid for his work.
Westport police responded to the Kings Highway North and Woodside Avenue intersection to investigate the 5:30 p.m. robbery.
The victim told police that "he was paid in cash after completing an electrical job at a bodega in Bridgeport" in front of several store patrons. On the drive home to Norwalk, a dark blue or black Volkswagen cut him off at the intersection in Westport. Someone got out of the car and pointed a silver semi-automatic handgun at him and sat next to him in the passenger seat. After finding the cash the victim was just paid, the suspect fled in his car in the eastbound direction toward Wilton Road.
Police said that the suspect is described as a 5-foot-8, lean man with a scar on the right side of face from his lip to his ear. He was wearing dark clothes and a dark beanie winter hat, police said.
Westport police ask anyone with information to contact the department at 203-341-6000.
