Terrifying footage shows the moment scared children put their hands in the air as an armed robber bursts into a teddy bear store.
The CCTV video shows the suspect take a pistol from his waistband and order everyone inside to put their hands up.
The incident happened in Teddy Bears El Paraiso in Mesa, Arizona, on a busy Sunday afternoon in April, with the store manager just now releasing the footage.
In the footage, the cashier can be seen handing over the money before an unsuspecting man walks into the store unaware a robbery is going on.
The gunman orders him into the corner to join the others who he had already corralled there
The gunman sends the children into the corner
The police sergeant said: “It was a scary moment… He showed a handgun to kids in the middle of the afternoon, in a toy store. So to us, he’s dangerous, he’s armed, and we need to find him.”
The shop also transfers money abroad and the manager believes that is why they were targeted.
The suspected robber still has not been caught.
