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WATCH: Masked robber fires shot into store ceiling before stealing cash in central Florida

Posted at 12:35 PM, Aug 20, 2018
and last updated 2018-08-20 12:35:37-04

HOLIDAY, Fla. — Pasco deputies are looking for a masked suspect who used a shotgun to rob a grocery store in Holiday.

It happened Friday night at 8:57 p.m. at the Beacon Square Grocery at 3332 Moog Rd. 

Deputies say a white male suspect entered the store wearing a gas mask and a tactical vest. 

He got into an altercation with a store employee and customer, then fired a shot into the ceiling.

Surveillance shows him taking the cash from the register and running from the store.

Anyone who has any information about this case or the suspect is asked to call the Pasco Sheriff's Crime Tips Line at 1-800-706-2488, reference case #18-32786.